Category: Terminology
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
Agile Testing book club: Everyone is a Tester
If you’ve even dipped your toe into the online testing community, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard Agile Testing by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin as a recommended read. A couple weeks ago I got my hands on a copy and thought it would be a useful exercise to record the highlights of what… Read more
Tests vs Checks and the complication of AI
There’s a lot to be made in testing literature of the differences between tests and checks. This seems to have been championed primarily by Michael Bolton and James Bach (with additional background information here), though it has not been without debate. I don’t have anything against the distinction such as it is, but I do think… Read more