Thursday 7 October 2010

How severe is your bug? What's your definition of Catastrophic?



I read recent posts by Alan Page and the Testing Rat Pack regarding testing definitions, specifically around a test strategy. I thought both posts were great. Really good to see further discussions growing from them.

A Test Strategy – or whatever you want to call it - by Alan Page

Isn't there a word for that? - By someone from the Testing Rat Pack (whoever they are)

Part of me thinks that as long you and the people you are working with know what you mean then that’s all that’s needed (that includes other testers in your team, Dev, Users, Clients, PMs etc). The other part of me wants more! Surely the testing industry as a whole can do better!

Do check out both posts and see what you think.

If you like it, Alan has just posted another entry where he will be talking about the what and why of his typical test strategies:
Free Test Stuff

2 comments:

  1. Severity is not about how your peers reacts to the situation when a defect is raised against the requirement.Its about how severely the end user will be getting affected when he is going to use the product for his business.

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  2. Well duh but this cartoon isn't meant to be taken seriously ;)

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