Testing on Dune (Part 2)
Previously I highlighted a passage in Frank Herbert’s Dune that mentioned testing and said it was the first of two. This is the second passage: Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: “Now it’s complete because it’s ended here.” —from “Collected Sayings of Maud’Dib” by the Princess Irulan, in Frank… Read more
Agile Testing book club: Courage
This is the third part on my series highlighting lessons I’m taking out of reading Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. Other entries in the series can be found here. Chapter 4 is largely about transitioning non-agile processes to an agile workflow. There’s a lot here that would have been useful to me… Read more
10,000+ synonyms for Quality Assurance
I recently had a conversation with my team about what we should call the status between when work is passed “code review” but not yet “done”. The one thing I didn’t want to call it was “In QA”. One of the developers on my team had another idea that I decided to run with: Let… Read more
Testing is like a box of rocks
I was inspired today by Alan Page’s Test Automation Snowman. He makes all good points, but let’s be honest, the model is the same as the good ol’ test pyramid. The only difference is that he’s being explicit about tests at the top of the pyramid being slow and tests at the bottom being fast…. Read more
Testing on Dune (Part 1)
I recently read Frank Herbert’s Dune and was surprised to find a couple passages on testing. I thought it would be fun to take them completely out of context (that’s a good habit for testers, right?) and try to apply them to software instead of spice. Here’s the first: Any road followed precisely to its… Read more