This is a process guide for creating a good test plan within the RST methodology. It consists of seven tasks. The tasks can be performed in any order, or simultaneously and iteratively. … [Read more...] about How to Evolve a Context-Driven Test Plan
Reference Docs: These documents are practical guides for working testers.
Guide to RST Test Coaching Model
This is a guide to a heuristic model of the tasks and dynamics of coaching testers. My approach to coaching is expertise-based (rather than some generic cheerleading kind of coaching which does not … [Read more...] about Guide to RST Test Coaching Model
Test Estimation Poster
This is a set of guidewords and questions that help me navigate the problem of estimating a test project. … [Read more...] about Test Estimation Poster
Heuristics of Software Testability
This is a concise description and guidewords for five kinds of testability: epistemic, value-related, project-related, subjective, and intrinsic. … [Read more...] about Heuristics of Software Testability
Session-Based Test Management
This is the seminal article on Session-Based Test Management, written by my brother Jon and I based on the process we pioneered at Hewlett-Packard. SBTM is a kind of activity-based test management … [Read more...] about Session-Based Test Management
Rapid Software Testing Context Model
This is a reference to help you think through the contextual factors that you must consider in order to plan testing well. … [Read more...] about Rapid Software Testing Context Model
Test Plan Evaluation Model
I developed this model to provide a basis to systematically assess the quality of test plans. … [Read more...] about Test Plan Evaluation Model
General Functionality and Stability Test Procedure
This is the exploratory portion of the Certified for Microsoft Windows 2000 testing protocol that I designed back when Windows 2000 was introduced. I am proud of this work. It was the first explicitly … [Read more...] about General Functionality and Stability Test Procedure