On 1 May 2007, at 05:51, Michael Bolton wrote: One of my first testing mentors was a sailor, and he told me about the "time to reef" heuristic. Reefing is the...
... Proactively work with the organizations down stream to decrease cycle time. For example, learn whatever is necessary to create a test environment as...
It is interesting that you mention conversation and interview. I am really looking for a way to present my understanding of the tests that need to be...
... Although ... mitigation. ... Hi Ian Personally, I wouldn't recommend the n/n+1 approach AT ALL. The fact that you have to adopt the n/n+1 approach means...
Dan, Did these same people have little or no time to provide and validate requirements? The best way to utilize the time of these busy people is pushing the...
I find that I've had to use a mixture of tools to track test results. One I've used recently to try to judge what has been tested is a test matrix with...
We have a mix of shared and dedicated resources for most projects. I realize this isn't ideal, but this is an entirely different topic. My goal is to make the...
... I can buy this on a Fahrenheit to Celsius kind of function - you could provide a list of boundaries, equivalence classes, and examples from each - but do...
This is the first time the company that I work for has tried Agile... Scrum/XP and I am having a hard time understanding when should I test the software. As an...
Hello, bethdewolfe. On Wednesday, May 2, 2007, at 10:22:20 AM, you ... How soon does the team need to know whether something works? How quickly do they need...
You'll find it's a big change from 'traditional' environments, but you will like it. I love it! In Scrum/XP, the entire development team (programmers,...
If we are implementing the project iteratively, then a large software project is just a series of very small ones. If we cannot define truly testable...
Hi, I think a tester should start only once the developer has marked the development story as complete . and if the fix is not critical and a small fix then...
IMO the tester should actually start by writing high level test cases in advance of coding, and detailed (hopefully executable) tests during coding so that...
Rajesh, I think testers should be defining what they will do to test a story in simultaneously and in collaboration with the developer and customer discussing...
Lisa, What if i am using seperate stories to track Dev and QA , should i still keep the status of DEV Story as not complete until the testing is done. If it...
Hi Rajesh, I don't understand the concept of separate stories for dev and qa. I've been on three different XP teams, and each one operated on the principle ...
... Scrum/XP and I am having a hard time understanding when should I test the software. As an old tester I am use to the developers 'throwing it over the wall'...
Great information Lisa, I do have one question. You mention during sprint planning you create testing cards with test estimates. What about testing priority?...
Hi Gang, I've recently moved to a new team and have been trying to motivate them to automate all tests, and test everything that can possibly break....
... Yo. ... I'd expect it would. I know it would in my organization and even with me I'd have questions about that level being appropriate in all cases. ... ...
Hi James, Almost any test can be automated given enough resources (including time). What is their reasoning for saying "you can't automate it?" Though, I would...
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Hi, I am sateesh reddy I am B.E graduate in elctronics and communication engineering.At present I am working in an other field related to electronics.But I...
James, If there is no observable quality problem due to not being able to manually regression test the whole product sufficiently before each release (or a ...
A while back - just for fun - I took a pretty bad pun on Seinfeld's "Festivus" a bit too far and blogged about "Testivus - Unit testing for the rest of us": ...
... When should testing start? As several others have replied, the sooner the better. But, since I just posted about the "The Way of Testivus", I would like to...
Len Aye, nice description. One question. When you perform the TAYG (test as you go) are you completing all of your tests that you have on hand or a subset of...
... Let's say we have a Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion function with these unit tests: Get_Celsius_From_F(32) should return 0 Get_Celsius_From_F(212) should...
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