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Wednesday 19 November 2008 - Says who?

So I'm sitting here on my lunch break, burning my tongue on my baked potato with Chilli which will be followed by a quick bit of discreet trouser loosening.  I'm browsing through random test sites.  I stop to read this: Software Testing Best Pratices and Tips

It starts off with: 'Following are some of the software testing best practices followed
by experienced software testers in the industry today:'. Fair enough. Says who? That sentence is not followed up with anything like 'These best practices were collected via questionnaires posted to the top 5 most popular testing forums' or 'They were collected by surveying testers at such and such expo and convention'.  So........following on with my train of thought this is actually one persons list of best practices and tips and nothing to do with anybody else. 

 

I'm not going to start in on best practices, there's plenty of discussion regarding best practices already out there so I'm going to bite my tongue, or rather my fingers.

 

I however love, absolutely love the fact that the following is a best practice followed by experienced software testers in the industry today: Start testing the application by intend of finding bugs/errors.

 

...........I don't really know what to write after that, it's not the complete paragraph, I think dear reader you should go read the whole article.

 

I could go on about the article it but I think it should be read by yourself, share your thoughts.

 

I would however like to write a best practice for the article writer, there are 20 hints and tips so I'd like to add tip 21.

 

21) During and after writing up anything run a spell checker.  The article title is copied directly from the site.

 

 


Wednesday 19 November 2008 - Pratices

Posted by strazzerj
Clearly the intent of the site it to get revenue by selling certification questions, and google ads.

And clearly the author tries to keep it fresh by posting some occasional drivel without much editing.

"Pratices" made me laugh, too.
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