[Public Lecture] - Testing as Codependent Behaviour / Software Testing Innovations
SOFTWARE TESTING INNOVATIONS
As a consultant, Lee Copeland has spoken with thousands of software testers in hundreds of different organizations. Generally, he comes away from these discussions depressed with the state of testing. Many organizations neither know about nor have adopted recent important innovations in our field. Lee discussed nine of the important innovations in testing—the context-driven school, test-first development, really good books, open source tools, session-based test management, testing workshops, freedom of the press, virtualization, and testing in the cloud. Delegates joined Lee for his list, and proposed others they liked. The keys to innovation were discussed and delegates took a test evaluating their organization’s innovation quota.
SOFTWARE TESTING as CO-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOUR
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Vague requirements, undocumented design, poor code, and impossible schedules – the typical complaints of today’s developers. Who’s fault is it? It’s “theirs,” of course, clients, users, and managers. But could it also be ours? Could we be part of the problem? Codependent behaviour is defined as “a way of getting needs met that doesn’t get needs met. We do all the wrong things for all the right reasons.”