“Excellent Testing”
summary
States 18 characteristics of "excellent testing" and makes a concrete claim: excellent testing is fast, inexpensive, credible and accountable. Describes specific practices — treat bugs as threats to user value, use automation only when cost-effective, prioritize falsification over verification, and pair mindset roles (sociologist, psychologist, controller, chameleon, historian, experimentalist) with concrete actions: ask more questions, tie risks to stakeholder goals, report what was and wasn’t tested, and act as a quality assistant rather than a guarantor.
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