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What happens over here and why you might care A window into the Test Team

What happens over here and why you might care A window into the Test Team. Jonathan Bach jonb@quardev.com Quardev Laboratories Seattle, WA. Overview. Testers and developers are often separated by a wall

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What happens over here and why you might care A window into the Test Team

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  1. What happens over here and why you might careA window into the Test Team Jonathan Bach jonb@quardev.com Quardev Laboratories Seattle, WA

  2. Overview • Testers and developers are often separated by a wall • The wall is a normal and natural result of systemic social, methodological, and technological factors • The wall can reduce the efficiency of development and testing, raising costs, lengthening projects, and lowering morale and quality • Understanding these forces, a project team can reframe the tester/developer relationship and lower the wall • Individuals can lower the wall in many cases, regardless of what the group does

  3. What’s being said: Testers say: Devs don't care about quality. Devs don't care about testing Devs are basically selfish Devs shouldn't do testing. Devs say: Testers delight in breaking the product. Testers are complainers. Testers are technically inept. Testing is “pounding the keyboard”.

  4. The Social Wall • They don’t understand us. • They don’t care about us. • They don’t care to understand. • They’re out of control, over there. • They sometimes do things just to mess with us.

  5. Exercise:Dimensional Analysis Describe these things and conjecture what they do…

  6. Why testing is hard • It’s all in your head -- conjecture and refutation • Have to anticipate behaviors of an unknown user to examine a product that's ambiguous • The product is more than just software • Who’s code is it (OS?) • We can never know quality for certain • Suitability, Testability, Compatibility, Scalability, Interoperability, Usability, Re-usability, Learnability, Reliability, Recoverability, Adapability, Localizability, Portability, Changability

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