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Going deeper on “Should we automate each negative test?”

In recent article on the Ministry of Testing site, Mark Winteringham asks: “Should You Create Automation For Each Negative API Scenario?” In short, he answers that which scenarios you automate will depend entirely on what risks you’re trying to mitigate. While I’m on board with the idea that each test should have a reason behind… Read more

Qualifying quantitative risk

Let’s start with quantifying qualitative risk first. Ages ago I was under pressure from some upper management to justify timelines, and I found a lot of advice about using risk as a tool not only to help managers see what they’re getting from the time spent developing a feature (i.e, less risk) but also to… Read more

If you didn’t test it, it doesn’t work

Gary Bernhardt has a great talk online from 2012 called Boundaries, about how design patterns influence, for better and worse, the testing that can be done. In particular he advocates a “core” and “shell” model, having many independent functional cores and one orchestrating shell around them. The idea is that each functional core can be… Read more