Using different ways of testing to optimize your test effort

Jan Jaap Cannegieter, Vice President SYSQA B.V.

Belgium Testing DaysInternational Software Testing

“Doing” Conference

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What happened next?

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I was happy,So what happened?

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“He is from Holland, He only knows scripted testing.”

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Different ways of testing

Scripted testing Non scripted testing

Different ways of testing

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Based on‘Telling your exploratory story’ by Jon Bach, Agile 2010 conference

Factory based testing

Globalscripting

Session based testing

Bug hunts

Test tours

Freestyle exploratory

testing

Scripted testingNon scripted testing

Situational testing

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Focused on actionFlexible

PragmaticRely on the tester

Focused on test execution

Focused on preparationFocused on planningRely on the methodConfidence in the processFocused on documentation

Factory based testing

Globalscripting

Session based testing

Bug hunts

Test tours

Freestyle exploratory

testing

Scripted testingNon scripted testing

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Choose your way of testing

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System

Test goals

Test skills

Organi-zation

Develop-ment

method

Documen-tation

Situation

What about effectiveness?

Documentation

Testing

Juha Itkonen, Mika Mäntylä and Casper Lassenius (2007): Defect Detection Efficiency of exploratory testing is higher compared with test case based testing

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Is there a bigger b

owl besid

e yours?

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Personal performance = motivation * ( knowledge + experience+ skills )

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Questions?

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Thank you for your attention and I hope to see you soon!

Jan Jaap CannegieterVice President SYSQA B.V.jcannegieter@sysqa.nl@jjcannegieter+31-627038827