Test Cases are Not Testing: Toward a Performance Culture
Talkat CAST 2014 · on Tuesday, 2014-08-12· at 09:15· 10th fl Rosenthal Pavillion, Kimmel Center for University Life·
summary
Argues that testing is a live performance not a set of artifacts and testing is a performance; demos exploratory testing on FocusWriter’s scene selector, recording four hours of interaction, writing a 18-item spec and a data-generator so others can reproduce experiments; discovers that snippet cuts at ≥48-char word and that the scene selector filter only looks at first three lines (flagged as probable bugs); emphasizes techniques used—Levy flight sampling, gumping, fresh eyes, pairing—and that check scripts are tools, not a substitute for judgment.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00The challenge of testing
- 2:41Analytical lag time
- 4:32Testing resources and context
- 7:03Exploratory testing demonstration
- 14:06The layers of testing
- 19:18Heuristics for testing
- 24:38Tacit knowledge and reporting
- 32:02Structured test experiments
- 37:36Testing vs. automation
- 48:15Open session Q&A
