ash winter - what is testing?
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#AgileNorthants
“If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any
other requirement.” ~ Gerald Weinberg
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Ash WinterShort stuff here:@northern_tester
Long stuff here:testingisbelieving.
blogspot.co.uk
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So, erm, what actually is testing then?
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Tough crowd…• Does testing?• Identifies as a tester?• Doesn’t really think about it all that much?
• Thinks you can ‘bake quality in?’
• Thinks testing is dead?• Thinks devops will replace everything?
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In interviews I ask…•What is testing (to you)?•Terrifying answers•“Being nice”
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• No paradigm == no legitimacy• No legitimacy == no value
I do care… lots
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OK, smarty-pants…•What is testing then?•Apart from “being nice”
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What do you believe?• Rather than a technical definition…• These are my axioms about testing…
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#1 Team Based Activity
• I help enable my team to test• I don’t test that much• Quality Assistance || Quality Advocacy
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#2 Testing is a human, intellectual activity
•Thinking•Learning•Sharing•Talking•Listening
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#3 Modelling• Products• Systems• Teams• Technologies• Testing == Information.
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#4 Complete testing is impossible
• Logically always pesky bugs
• Infinity is a strength
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#5 Balance & Variation
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#6 Testing is a performance
• By all means, think about it.• The value when it is in motion, do it!
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#7 Tools assist testing, not replace
• Automation is an hugely important tactic of testing• Build tools to observe and control
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#8 Testability• Great development is concerned with testability• Great teams talk about it lots!
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#n Context or ‘it depends’
• If the problem isn’t solved, then product doesn’t work.• Context driven activity. One size fits one.
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What its not…• is another story…• But lets stay cheerful eh?
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Questions or Beer?Duff Man says:
“Yeah that's swell, Duff wholeheartedly supports asking questions. Now! Who wants a beer!"