Great Testing Habits

Great Testing Habits explores the principles of software testing and building testable systems. It is designed for the whole team, not just testers.

Outline

• Test Strategy: reasoning about what, where and when to test
• Test Design: reasoning about how to test
• BDD: understanding its relationship to testing and automation
• Automation: when, where to automate, and where not to
• Designing for Testability: how test thinking can inform design, development and deployment

Learning outcomes

After completing the class, participants will be better able to:

• identify and apply a number of testing techniques and methods.
• make design choices that promote testability
• understand and implement non-functional testing strategies for e.g. performance and resilience testing.
• make suitable cost benefit trade-offs for testing throughout the application lifecycle.
• recognize the diminishing return of different testing techniques and avoiding over-testing.
• apply consistent testing techniques within and across applications.
• understand and develop the role of test analysts.
• introduce instrumentation, analytics and telemetry into their development approach.
• classify testing techniques by various characteristics and describe their respective merits and trade-offs.
• apply a risk-based approach to recognizing missing or inadequate testing.
• apply feature management techniques like semantic versioning and feature hiding.

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