Przyszłość testowania oprogramowania

Wkrótce w czasopiśmie "Professional Tester" ukaże się artykuł Bogdana Berezy pod tytułem "The Futurology of Software Testing".

 

Prenumerata jest darmowa, więc warto mieć dostęp do tego najstarszego w Europie pisma dotyczącego testowania oprogramowania.

A jaka to będzie przyszłość, zdaniem autora artykułu?

The Futurology of Software Testing [fragmenty]

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So, let the show begin! I have chosen four crystal balls, each looking into a different possible future.

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It happens to me that I teach an [...] ISTQB course  from Monday to Wednesday, and a BPM or BPMN course on Thursday and Friday. Then an abyss of realisation opens in front of me – why, for God’s sake, neither ISTQB nor PRINCE 2, nor PMI, nor ITIL, uses BPMN diagrams to describe their “fundamental(istic) processeses”, but relies on logorrhea instead? [...]

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Testing has developed and grown very, very much indeed during the last 20 years, but alas the development has gone in the direction of what I called test hacking rather than in the direction of quality thinking on all levels. Testing as profession has become the domain of nimble-fingered test execution tools’ programmers, with really great ability to automate anything. However, testing as a general approach, [...] has not developed at all. On business analysis level, and on requirements engineering level, testing is still in its infancy, with naïve, stone age gut-feeling approach dominant.

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Sometimes, while explaining the intricacies of 2-switch coverage in state transition testing to some poor victims of HR departments’ ISTQB obsession, I get a very good question: “how does the choice between 1-switch and 2-switch coverage translate into customer satisfaction?”.
Needless to say, my answer is “it depends” [...].

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When everything changes, nothing changes

In the summer of 1628, the captain responsible for supervising construction of the ship, Söfring Hansson, arranged for the ship's stability to be demonstrated […]. Thirty men ran back and forth across the upper deck to start the ship rolling, but the admiral stopped the test after they had made only three trips, as he feared the ship would capsize. […] Fleming remarked that he wished the king – who had been sending a steady stream of letters insisting that the ship put to sea as soon as possible - were at home.