The HTSM (v.6.3) is a set of guideword heuristics designed to help you think better about test strategy. It includes four focus areas: test techniques, project elements, product factors, and quality … [Read more...] about Heuristic Test Strategy Model
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Heuristics of Software Testability
This is a concise description and guidewords for five kinds of testability: epistemic, value-related, project-related, subjective, and intrinsic. Version 2.8 … [Read more...] about Heuristics of Software Testability
SBTM Session Report Checklist
Test session reports are a part of session-based test management. This is a checklist for helping you make a good test session report. … [Read more...] about SBTM Session Report Checklist
Rapid Testing for Rapid Maintenance
A correspondent writes: "I have a test management problem. We have a maintenance project. It contains about 20 different applications. Three of them are bigger in terms of features and also the … [Read more...] about Rapid Testing for Rapid Maintenance
How To Talk About Testing
It's not easy to talk about testing. This is a guide to avoiding the big pitfalls and having some of those difficult conversations. … [Read more...] about How To Talk About Testing
Rapid Testing Guide to Making Good Bug Reports
This is a general guide to writing good bug reports. … [Read more...] about Rapid Testing Guide to Making Good Bug Reports
Guide to RST Test Coaching Model
This is a guide to a heuristic model of the tasks and dynamics of coaching testers. My approach to coaching is expertise-based (rather than some generic cheerleading kind of coaching which does not … [Read more...] about Guide to RST Test Coaching Model
How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method
How meeting an "empathic" tester proved that testing skill is mainly tacit, and is not reliably detected in an ordinary interview. … [Read more...] about How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method
A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing
This is a detailed explanation of how automation helps us in software testing. We show that automation can do much more than merely simulating a user who is pressing buttons. … [Read more...] about A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing
Test Estimation Poster
This is a set of guidewords and questions that help me navigate the problem of estimating a test project. … [Read more...] about Test Estimation Poster