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Category Archives: Test Planning & Strategy
Checklists, Refactored
Guided exploratory testing is using checklists to support and guide the exploration. In addition, it also means using those checklists as the backbone for communicating to other stakeholders on the project/initiative. I’ve started to advocate the term ‘testlists’ to replace … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, risk driven, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, value add
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Tying Up Some Loose Ends
I think it is time for a follow-up on my experience of applying Thread-Based Test Management (TBTM). In October last year I blogged about my attempt at setting up my tests for a new project using TBTM. It was a smaller … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, risk driven, software testing, visualization tools
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Regression Testing – Strategic and Risk-driven, Can You Afford Not To?
Planning your testing effort for the next project: How much time do you have? How many people do you have? _How_ big was that scope again? As testing is virtually always constrained with not enough time, not enough people, not … Continue reading
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Tagged prioritization, regression testing, software testing
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Spinning Threads Into Yarn
Recently the approach I have had to my testing has been heavily influenced by session-based test management. I have made a test plan consisting of a high-level list of test tasks. The testing has been exploratory, performed in sessions on … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, risk driven, software testing
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Play Me a Song
My sister was visiting us a few weeks ago so that she might meet her new niece in person. She lives about 1500km away from us, so it’s just far enough away to make these sorts of visits infrequent. I … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance testing, agile, high performance teams, people, process improvement, software testing, templates, test management, test tools, uat
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Using Agile Principles to Get an “A” With the Customer Every Time
Agile is a frequent topic in process improvement discussions and networking events alike – some going for Agile all the way and others rejecting it as something that won’t work for their projects or customers. In general, I have found … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, release management, software testing
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Why Estimate Testing If You Are Just Given A Box To Work Within?
Sharing an answer to a couple of recent customer queries in hopes that it is generally useful as well: Often in discussing the value of estimating test efforts, a comment is made by someone that there is no point in … Continue reading
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Tagged data, estimation, prioritization, software testing
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Designing an Effective (Agile) Smoke Test
Sharing an answer to a couple of recent customer queries in hopes that it is generally useful as well: The ability to give early feedback during testing is a cornerstone to providing value on a software project. A well designed … Continue reading
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Successfully Integrating Test Automation and Agile Projects
On Oct. 7, 2009, I presented “Successfully Integrating Test Automation and Agile Projects” to Annex Consulting Group CIO Breakfast, and I wanted to share that material with you. To accelerate your project and specifically the testing of your releases, test … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, data, software testing, test automation
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Involve Testing Throughout the SDLC
Too often a test team is employed only towards the end of a project cycle. This means the test team is not as fully leveraged as they could be and therefore the project is not reaching as high a quality … Continue reading
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