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Test Automation: Don't report the bugs it catches

Automation, continuous improvement, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Reading time: 3 minutes Don’t report the bugs your test automation catches. Report the reduction in uncertainty that the system works. When you report the bugs you send the signal that test automation is there to catch bugs. But that’s…

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Exploratory and Automated testing: Using the right techniques in the wrong contexts

Checks Vs Testing, contract testing, feedback, quality, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Exploratory testing is about testing in an unpredictable context and therefore detecting unpredictable failures in our software. Automated testing is about testing in a predictable context and therefore detecting predictable failures. The mistake we make with automation is we try to apply it to the wrong context

Three questions of unit testing

How to document Unit Testing

Collaboration, documentation, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Whenever you talk about unit testing with teams they never tell you what it means to them. They go straight to of course we do and show you 100s of passing tests. Interesting thing is by calling it unit testing everyone thinks they are talking…

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Building Quality in via Testability

Agile, Collaboration, psychological safety, quality, testability, Uncategorised, unit testing

7 minute read Back in March 2018 I visited The Design Museum in London and came across the above installation. What you can see is technology design classics all the way from the first transistor radios on one side to the very first digital…

What is Contract Testing?

consumer-driven contract testing, contract testing, feedback, Test automation, Testing, unit testing

And Consumer-driven contract testing This is a follow on from Contract testing: Why do it First some quick definitions: Consumer Is someone (a dev team for instance) that makes use of a third party component or a combination of components…

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Contract Testing, Why do it?

consumer-driven contract testing, contract testing, feedback, Test automation, Testing, unit testing

I’ve been thinking a lot about contract testing lately and trying to explain why it’s a good idea. I thought I’d start by getting my initial arguments for it down and go from there. Got an opinion then let me know. Note:…

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The unintended consequences of automated UI tests

Android, Automation, Checks Vs Testing, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Whenever I see people talking about automated testing I always wonder what type of testing they actually mean? Eventually someone will mention the framework they are using and all too often it's a UI based automation tool that allows tests…