Juicy Slices of Testing

GR Testers discussion slides on different ways to classify testing.

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1. Juicy Slices of Testing Jace Browning
2. Goals • Reach a common understanding of terminology • Share the diverse, often conflicting approaches to testing • Debate the balance of testing vs. experimentation
3. Terminology
4. Quality is value to some person. - Jerry Weinberg
5. A bug is something that bugs somebody who matters. - James Bach
6. Testing is an empirical, technical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of a product. - Cem Kaner
7. Disciplines
8. Quality Assurance Quality Control
9. Product Owner Developer Tester
10. Production Alpha Beta
11. Scopes
12. System Function or Method Component
13. End-to-End Testing Unit Testing Integration Testing
14. Production Development Machines Staging / QA Environment
15. Defects
16. Functional Defects Code Defects Intention Defects
17. Usability Security
18. Approaches
19. Black Box White Box
20. State-based Testing Interaction-based Testing
21. Test-driven Development Behavior-driven Development
22. Exploratory Automated Scripted
23. Goals
24. Smoke Testing Sanity Testing
25. Exploratory Testing Acceptance Testing Regression Testing
26. Stress Testing Performance Testing Load Testing
27. Metrics
28. Feature Coverage Code Coverage Requirements Coverage
29. Defect Counts?
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?