Thinking traps in testing
summary
Covers cognitive biases (thinking traps) that cause systematic errors in human perception and judgment, explains that software is built, tested, and used by people so these biases affect development and testing, and discusses implications for QA and how awareness of such biases can improve testing practices.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Cognitive biases intro
- 4:58Confirmation trap
- 9:44Sunk cost effect
- 12:15Cognitive dissonance
- 15:09False conjunction
- 18:19Illusory correlation
- 21:10Cognitive illusions
- 22:35Patterns vs randomness
- 25:19Focusing illusion
- 29:23Survivorship bias
- 31:09Positive vs negative testing
- 34:03Emotions in testing
- 37:21Reducing bias impact
- 40:34Critical decisions
- 41:01Testing book recs
- 42:32Q&A
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