Tag Archives: prioritization

“Project: Risky Decision” – a Card Game

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Trevor Atkins

I designed this teaching game in 2014 as a different sort of hands-on activity to supplement my Software Testing & Risk Management training sessions and presentations, specifically to highlight certain concepts around risk mitigation strategies. This version of “Project: Risky … Continue reading →

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Software Testing Guiding Principles

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Scott Acker

All effective test teams typically have well defined processes, appropriate tools and resources with a variety of skills. However, teams cannot be successful if they place 100% dependency on the documented processes, as doing so leads to conflicts. Especially when testers use … Continue reading →

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Maximizing the Value of Test Automation

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Brad Thompson

High quality software delivered to market quickly has always been the goal of Agile teams. A common process teams use to achieve this goal is test automation. However, simply implementing test automation doesn’t always result in reaching this goal. Over … Continue reading →

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Testing as a Service? Testing is a Service

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Trevor Atkins

We, as testers, do not “build in quality” and can not guarantee all the defects will be found.  We can not, should not, define “what is quality?”  And, we should not be making the choice to release or not. Not … Continue reading →

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Mobile Application Testing – It’s Not All About the Devices

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Trevor Atkins

When designing our mobile application testing strategy, it is important to consider that: it is not all about the devices – but it IS about all the devices. The distinction comes from the fact that it is not possible to … Continue reading →

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Test Planning Game: “Mind Your Own Business”

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Trevor Atkins

You might find it familiar to be involved in, or responsible for, the planning and design of testing on a project where the business drivers around why/how the project is important, in the larger sense, are not entirely clear to … Continue reading →

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Finding Bugs Under Software Rocks – Exploratory Testing as a Bug Hunt

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Derrick Collins

One aspect of software testing is trying to find as many of the bugs in the software under test as possible and, in that sense, software testing can be viewed as a “Bug Hunt”. As a metric for evaluating the … Continue reading →

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Shorter Interval Projects Are Trending, But What Does That Mean For Testers?

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Michael Murphy

I find it interesting that software development projects are generally being planned and executed with shorter time frames than before. Software development projects that were once taken on as a single large project are now being broken down into smaller … Continue reading →

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Risk Mitigation – Scarcity Leads to Risk-Driven Choices

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Trevor Atkins

I presented “Risk Mitigation – Scarcity Leads to Risk-Driven Choices” to yvrTesting.com and the Annex Consulting Group, and I wanted to share that material with you. Image credit: http://sbhshgovapmacro.wordpress.com/what-is-economics/ Testing is a recognized mitigation solution for certain risks on a … Continue reading →

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Write a Test Strategy – What Choice(s) Do I Have?

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Trevor Atkins

Project Manager: “Your test strategy looks good.”         Test Lead: “Great. I will get started on the next steps. Do you have the finalized delivery schedule?” Project Manager: “I will send it to you shortly.”     … Continue reading →

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