So you’re probably sitting there wondering why your testing process feels like complete chaos while other teams seem to have everything figured out. Here’s the thing – most people confuse test plan and test scenario and end up using them wrong. Big mistake. These aren’t interchangeable terms you can throw around randomly.
As a software developer, you understand that testing is an integral part of software development. However, software testing is not just about finding and fixing bugs; it is also about identifying and mitigating risks. Therefore, risk management is an essential part of any software testing process, and having a risk management plan in place is critical during the testing planning phase.
In software development projects, the test cases are written based on the requirements. In this article, Sreerekha Bakaraju explains how software testers can use a test matrix approach to ensure the traceability from requirements to testing.
Specializing static analysis techniques for test suites has yielded interesting results. We’ve previously learned that most tests are simple straight-line code, namely a sequence of setup statements followed by a payload consisting of asserts. We show how static analysis can identify useless setup statements, enabling developers to simplify and speed up their test cases.
The debate is always active in the software testing community about the usage of manual or automated testing. In this article, Art Trevethan explains that both have their value. He guides you on how to choose the test items to automate and proposes an approach to integrate test automation smoothly in your test plans without abandoning the benefits of manual testing.
Performing software testing in an Agile project doesn’t mean that it should be improvised. In this article from their book “More Agile Testing”, Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin looks at some foundations of Agile test planning using the Agile testing quadrants.
Your application is a unique snowflake. Your software tests are too… but they shouldn’t be! Years helping teams write better tests has taught me one thing: consistency is crucial. Inconsistent tests slow teams down, wasting time to understand how each test works.
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