Testing-Essentials ▪ Think Like a Tester ▪ Test Strategy ▪ Test Tooling, Automation ▪ Test Analysis and -Design ▪ Performing Tests and Reporting ▪ Appendix
Being in scout mindset means wanting your “map” - your perception of yourself and the world - to be as accurate as possible. Of course, all maps are imperfect simplifications of reality, as a scout well knows. Striving for an accurate map means being aware of the limits of your understanding, keeping track of the regions of your map that are especially sketchy or possibly wrong. And it means always being open to changing your mind in response to new information. In scout mindset, there’s no such thing as a “threat” to your beliefs. If you find out you were wrong about something, great - you’ve improved your map, and that can only help you. – Galef.
The testing process could be described as a series of interconnected loops, because what is learned through testing activities is not limited to knowledge about the system under test. Learning through testing can improve our understanding of the project situation as a whole, showing us for example that previous assumptions need correcting, or providing us with information that we can use to refine our work items.
In test analysis and design activities, as you take your strategy and dial in on details for each topic, you will be able to see more clearly