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have been busy. still trying to work out how best to test based on my shop's development methodology. the last build was pretty messy, but much of the mess was punctuation or word choice in error messages related which should have been bloody easy for me to pick up on, so i gotta refocus on that. i've also been testing against the specs a bit too much and not using my head and thinking about how i think the system should work so i am going to try to get involved in discussions between the BAs and the clients when they are specing up solutions. often the system does what the spec says but that isn't exactly what the client wanted. but it is hard to criticise the BAs for leaving some ambiguity in there... [nb: i too am a BA] sometimes the developers need to think about what's normal in the system eg normal use of error messages even when it isn't in the spec... i've got a bit slack in terms of deliverables. noone is ever going to look at them one them have been done, and i rarely get time to do regression testing, and the french belgian gets narky when i even mention regression testing, but what i want to do is to re-test all the features to make sure that bug fixes don't cause any other problems... either that or i need to retest an entire feature after a bug fix.... maybe that is a good way to go... i might think about that.
one avenue i might persue is going on different ET missions. I can look at one feature with different eyes on each pass.
- look for interface problems
- test implementation against the specification
- test implementation against my expectations of the system which are hopefully similar to that of the clients
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06:17 PM, May 22, 2006 .. Posted by philk10Some of the developers here think testing is easy - and boring, they just dont realise how much work is involved and there's never enough time to do all the testing you want to do
But you're thinking about the process and working out what works and doesn't, keep at it - I'm all too aware that change is slow and gradual
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