have reimagined the testing pyramid over the years. ▸ Alister Scott: "the manual session-based tests at the top of the pyramid” ▸ https://watirmelon.blog/2012/01/31/introducing- the-software-testing-ice-cream-cone/ ▸ John Ferguson Smart: "the Discover/Describe/ Demonstrate cycle” [Refer to Appendix] ▸ Richard Bradshaw & John Stevenson: "an alternative model” [Refer to Appendix]
▸ Organizations fall into the trap of creating ‘inverted’ pyramids of software testing. ▸ Jonathan Rasmusson said … I AGREE WITH JULIA WHOLEHEARTEDLY HERE. AN INVERTED TEST PYRAMID IS BETTER THAN NO PYRAMID. AND IF YOU CAN GET SOME QUICK WINS BY ADDING SOME SMOKE TESTS, YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY GO FOR IT. JUST REMEMBER THAT THE INVERTED PYRAMID IS A PLACE—NOT OUR END DESTINATION. (“THE WAY OF THE WEB TESTER”)
the test pyramid as a bug filter in March 2017. ▸ http://infiniteundo.com/post/ 158179632683/abandoning-the-pyramid- of-testing-in-favor-of-a Image credit: Noah Sussman
"the Discover/Describe/Demonstrate cycle” ▸ https://johnfergusonsmart.com/test-pyramid- heresy/ ▸ Richard Bradshaw & John Stevenson: "an alternative model” ▸ http://steveo1967.blogspot.jp/2015/10/mewt4- post-1-sigh-its-that-pyramid.html