Tag: agile testing
Bad reasons to test
“Complete” testing is impossible, so we have to do the best we can with the time and resources we have. Often, that comes down to making sure that there’s a good reason for each test to exist. If there isn’t, then you should remove it and spend that time on something more valuable. When evaluating… Read more
Agile Testing book club: Do your tests have purpose?
This is the fourth part in my series highlighting some of the lessons I’m taking from reading Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. Other entries in the series can be found here. Chapter 6 is largely dedicated to an overview of the “Agile Testing Quadrants”, as a way of exploring the different roles that different… Read more
The first Ministry of Testing meetup in Toronto
Last week I organized the first meetup in Toronto under the banner of the Ministry of Testing. There have been tester meetups in the city before, but they tended to be infrequent and or short-lived, with the event I was aware of almost a year ago. With Toronto as a fast growing tech hub, with… Read more
Testing as prevention instead of diagnosis
On the topic of testing clichés, I recently heard again something along the lines of “testing only provides information, it doesn’t increase quality by itself.” There was a time where I might have agreed with that, but lately I’m not so sure. The idea is that testing alone can’t make the product any better, because… Read more
Playing Agile Testing Jenga
While at CAST last summer, one of my goals was to get ideas about how to get non-testers more interested in testing early. One woman (I think her name was Mel or Meg) suggested Agile Testing Jenga as an activity she often ran with teams that might help. There are a lot of posts online… Read more