This is the first post of a three posts about the relationship between Testing and Product Risks. In this post, I'm introducing the idea of focusing the conversations about testing on being related to types of risks over the common way of talking about testing in terms of types of testing. Types of testing? Or [...]
Tag: Perspective
The Complexities of “Failing Fast”
There has been lots of talk recently about "failing" and "failing fast". This is actually an extremely complex topic that can be difficult to grasp. It's not actually about failing. The topic of "failing" is actually all about learning. When we think about the properties of learning, we can break it down into various [...]
The Many Perspectives of Automated Testing
A few months ago, I read a great blog post by Iain McCowatt (@imccowatt) about "Models of Automation". The blog detailed a problem that Iain had witnessed between two of the teams that he was working with regarding automated testing - There was a lack of communication between the two teams and this was down [...]
Perspective is a funny thing…
It’s amazing how one person's interpretation of a bug can differ so much from another person's interpretation of the same defect. It's all down to perspective. Of not only all of the individual people involved, but also from the testing objective point of view and also the business point of view. I was recently performing [...]