There’s a thread on bad testing advice, let us fill up the goodness of the web with great testing advice.
What’s the best testing advice you’ve ever heard?
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“Assume us devs have got it wrong and if you can’t find a bug you’re not looking hard enough!” along with “testers are devs’ guardian angels - you stop our evil escaping into the world!”
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There is no such thing as 100% automation coverage.
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automation is not all about coding, it’s more important to design it better. - #LegoAutomation talk from Richard Bradshaw (my memory is a bit Rusty but that’s how I remembered in one meetup back a few years)
No. of Pass/Fail test cases give no insight of the quality of the product - Michael Bolton (another rusted memory from a past meetup)
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Testing is not about set of templates and rules, it is a mindset and skillset - #RST #ContextDrivenTesting - James Bach and Michael Bolton
Building quality together - Lisa Crispin
We only do the things if it adds value (lean approach) - learned from a great friend and colleague
T-shaped, lazy E, broken comb testers
From my first test manager (who had combined hardware and software testing in her career, which included the test and commissioning phases of a major power station facility):
A tester should always be open-minded enough to add tests to their test plan. But they should never be so open-minded that they remove tests from their test plan.
It is what it is - a reminder that no matter what I think about a situation, I can’t change the past. What I can do is advocate for changes so that whatever the current mess is, a repeat performance can be avoided.
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“…whatever the current mess is, a repeat performance can be avoided.”
Which makes me think of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore:
“Sir Arthur, have you learnt from your mistakes?”
“Yes I have, and I’m confident that if asked, I could repeat them all perfectly.”
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