At EuroSTAR 2019 I was co-speaking with Henrik Emilsson on a half-day tutorial on using quality characteristics. My favorite parts of these intense events are the questions when you don’t know what will happen. In one of these I ended my answer with “if testing is easy, you’re doing something wrong”. I remember how happy I was with that sentence, it fitted perfect in the context, and in a sense summarized both how I see testing, and why I love it. I forgot it while doing the rest of the tutorial, but was re
Testing is difficult Testing is never complete. We are in the sampling business, and there will always be more tests you could run. This means that you always have to skip an enormous amount of tests that could be run. Many of them are easy to skip, but if you have many really good test ideas, at least I find it often difficult to choose which ones to skip. And after you are quite happy with your test coverage, things are changing. You learn about new things, the surrounding world changes, and suddenly your
Testers are humans and make mistakes If you never make mistakes I am surprised. Mistakes can be small and big, sometimes they are realized and sometimes not. Sometimes mistakes help us find out other important information. There are many reasons for mistakes, but one of them is that we are dealing with complex things, both regarding technology and people. We don’t know everything in advance (if that was the case, testing wouldn’t be needed) and learning is personal, and sometimes “wrong”, but still helpful.
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