Tag Archives | rules of thumb

Short post – plan your tests, even when you don’t have time to plan them

By on October 21, 2011 in Best Practices, On-Going Improvement, Test Process

How many times have you told yourself you don’t have enough time to plan your tests, so you might as well just get testing… If you are anything like me, then this happens to you 2 or 3 times a week. Classic examples are: – When you run a short test on a piece of [...]

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You must choose correctly what NOT to measure!

By on July 5, 2011 in Metrics & Statistics, On-Going Improvement, Testing Intelligence

“It’s not only about what you have in your metrics, it’s also about what you leave outside of them.” This is the principle I tried to communicate to an organization I was working with lately.

A short post about the importance of defining your metrics correctly and communicating what you want to achieve and what you are willing to pay for it, up-front and clearly.

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Test Size Matters: THINK BIG, test small!

By on September 7, 2010 in Automation, Best Practices, On-Going Improvement

- Is the size of a test important?
- How big and comprehensive should a test case be?
- Should tests be always small, or should you write comprehensive tests that cover end-to-end and complex scenarios in “one-go”?

All of these are important questions, and even if there is no text-book answer for them there are some guidelines you can consider when you are wondering about this subject.

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