Testing Folklore
- Every test must have an expected, predicted result
- Effective testing requires complete, clear, consistent, and unambiguous specifications.
- Bugs found earlier cost less to fix than bugs found later. – I might still believe this – only for those bugs that you could reasonably expect to find
- Testers are the quality gatekeepers for a product
- Repeated tests are fundamentally more valuable.
- You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
- Testing at boundary values is the best way to find bugs.
- Test Documentation is needed to deflect legal liability.
- The more bugs testers find before release, the better the testing effort.
- Rigorous planning is essential for good testing.
- Exploratory testing is unstructured testing, and is therefore un-realiable.
- Adopting best practices will guarantee that we do a good job of testing.
- Step by step instructions are necessary to make testing a repeatable process.
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