RST

The HTSM (v.6.3) is a set of guideword heuristics designed to help you think better about test strategy. It includes four focus areas: test techniques, project elements, product factors, and quality … [Read more...] about Heuristic Test Strategy Model

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

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

A concise list of the skills, dynamics, and work products of excellent testing. … [Read more...] about Elements of Excellent Testing

This document lays out, in many dimensions, how RST methodology differs from and contradicts the type of testing advocated by the ISTQB, TMAP, and similar systems. In my opinion, which is informed by … [Read more...] about How RST is Different From “Factory-Style” Testing

These are the appendices to the Rapid Software Testing Explored class. We also use variations of this in the other RST classes. Version 5.6 … [Read more...] about RSTE Appendices

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