Juicy Slices of Testing

GR Testers discussion slides on different ways to classify testing.

Transcript

1. Juicy Slices of Testing
   Jace Browning
   

   View Slide

2. Goals
   ● Reach a common understanding of terminology
   ● Share the diverse, often conflicting approaches to testing
   ● Debate the balance of testing vs. experimentation
   

   View Slide

3. Terminology
   

   View Slide

4. Quality is value to some person.
   - Jerry Weinberg
   

   View Slide

5. A bug is something that
   bugs somebody who matters.
   - James Bach
   

   View Slide

6. Testing is an empirical, technical investigation
   conducted to provide stakeholders with
   information about the quality of a product.
   - Cem Kaner
   

   View Slide

7. Disciplines
   

   View Slide

8. Quality Assurance
   Quality Control
   

   View Slide

9. Product
   Owner
   Developer Tester
   

   View Slide

10. Production
    Alpha Beta
    

    View Slide

11. Scopes
    

    View Slide

12. System
    Function
    or
    Method
    Component
    

    View Slide

13. End-to-End
    Testing
    Unit
    Testing
    Integration
    Testing
    

    View Slide

14. Production
    Development
    Machines
    Staging / QA
    Environment
    

    View Slide

15. Defects
    

    View Slide

16. Functional
    Defects
    Code
    Defects
    Intention
    Defects
    

    View Slide

17. Usability
    Security
    

    View Slide

18. Approaches
    

    View Slide

19. Black Box
    White Box
    

    View Slide

20. State-based Testing
    Interaction-based Testing
    

    View Slide

21. Test-driven Development
    Behavior-driven Development
    

    View Slide

22. Exploratory
    Automated Scripted
    

    View Slide

23. Goals
    

    View Slide

24. Smoke Testing
    Sanity Testing
    

    View Slide

25. Exploratory
    Testing
    Acceptance
    Testing
    Regression
    Testing
    

    View Slide

26. Stress
    Testing
    Performance
    Testing
    Load
    Testing
    

    View Slide

27. Metrics
    

    View Slide

28. Feature
    Coverage
    Code
    Coverage
    Requirements
    Coverage
    

    View Slide

29. Defect Counts?
    

    View Slide

30. Summary
    ● Who does the testing?
    ● What do we test?
    ● What are we looking for?
    ● Which approaches are best suited for a product?
    ● How can we measure our results?
    

    View Slide