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Test Strategies from Around the World

This webinar will give attendees an overview of the significant test strategies in use by testers in various industries and business domains around the world.  We’ll examine: analytical strategies (where testers analyze requirements or risks to identify the test conditions to cover);  model-based strategies (where testers develop a model of the environment in which the system exists, the inputs and conditions to which the system is subjected, and how the system should behave); methodical strategies (where testers use a predetermined set of test conditions, such as a quality standard or set of heuristics); process-compliant strategies (where testers follow a set of processes defined by others, such as Agile testing); reactive strategies (where testers react to the actual system under test rather than trying to pre-plan the testing); and, other strategies in common use. 

YU55 Near Miss

YU55 Near Miss

I dare to ask about the consequences of an eventually failing asteroid observation software. I think the good news is that there are a lot of amateurs out there who will use a broad variety of similar tools which calculate and “estimate” the same thing. If one of...
A Discussion on How To Do Estimates

A Discussion on How To Do Estimates

Estimates are important to test leads and test managers for a number of reasons. As test lead or a test manager, I would want to know, How many test cases do we need to write? Can we use any of the existing test cases? How many existing test cases do we need to...
Beautiful Testing Satisfies Stakeholders

Beautiful Testing Satisfies Stakeholders

This article, contributed by STP guest editor Rex Black, is reprinted from “Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software” (O’Reilly, October 2009). The book, edited by Tim Riley and Adam Goucher, is a compilation of essays from 27...