Test session reports are a part of session-based test management. This is a checklist for helping you make a good test session report. … [Read more...] about SBTM Session Report Checklist
Exploratory-testing
A Rapid Software Testing Framework
There are many ways to diagram the testing process, but this is my current favorite. This diagram is also an illustration of how test framing works. Test framing is the process of relating … [Read more...] about A Rapid Software Testing Framework
Rapid Testing for Rapid Maintenance
A correspondent writes: "I have a test management problem. We have a maintenance project. It contains about 20 different applications. Three of them are bigger in terms of features and also the … [Read more...] about Rapid Testing for Rapid Maintenance
How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method
How meeting an "empathic" tester proved that testing skill is mainly tacit, and is not reliably detected in an ordinary interview. … [Read more...] about How Albina Wrecked My Tester Evaluation Method
Unbearable Lightness of “Model-Based” Testing
This is a presentation I gave about the thing some people call "model-based" testing and my concerns about the limitations of formal modeling applied to test design. … [Read more...] about Unbearable Lightness of “Model-Based” Testing
Testing Without a Map
This is a worked-out example and discussion of how to do one kind of exploratory testing: reconnaissance and fast evaluation of a product that you've never seen before (we now call this "survey … [Read more...] about Testing Without a Map
Inside the Mind of an Exploratory Tester
I no longer like to speak of "exploratory testers" because I think all testing worth doing is exploratory. My word for exploratory testing is simply "tester." Or perhaps "skilled tester." There are … [Read more...] about Inside the Mind of an Exploratory Tester
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
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