Today we talked about Test Strategy, Risk Analysis, and Test Oracles. We also got a lecture on Test Oracles from James, and a live pair Exploratory Testing exercise from Jon. All in all, another good and packed day!
Today's pearls of wisdom by James:
- Our job is not documentation - it is to get the testing done. Learn how to takes notes w/o interfering with your testing.
- To train yourself to take notes, try setting a timer every 15minutes for a day. It will build in a practice of taking notes.
- What should session notes include? Tell the story of your testing - briefly. For a 90min session, three paragraphs are enough or 10-15 bullet points. Tell enough so that someone can visualize what you did.
- Oracles: A medium by which we connect our feelings about the product with the opinion of someone that really matters. If they're not satisfied, you have a big problem.
- Oracles: A natural tester just looks for inconsistencies. You have to be able to describe your testing. Oracles are heuristics; there are no oracles that are perfect. Oracles require ongoing learning.
- Oracles: You're a tourist if you test with no oracles - you're just observing - that's lack of an oracle. You're touring a product. You're not testing.
- James is nervous when not testing with other people because he's afraid he'll miss something.
- Rapid Testing is rapid learning. Learning is a normal thing that happens all the time.
- "If you're confused, you're right on track"
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