Chronicles Of Testing

Idea generation I have written extensively about Idea generation and the stop criteria here . What triggered me to gamify test idea generation is an environment for testers which was lacking: ~flexibility wrt making changes to the existing test ideas and  ~a lack of training budget for testers. Gamify test idea generation Some of the simplest ways we can learn to test and generate test ideas are: Pair testing with knowledgable testers/mentors Get together to l earn+unlearn Read from blogs and books Tour of the application and sense-making as we take the tour of the product Improvise by role play (white-hat hacker, black-hat hacker, SEO engineer, test for data quality...) Watch a relevant video to gather inspiration The dart game or a  bowl with various testing types and techniques to choose and learn from Tools To Use Note-taking tools Build Heuristics(learn about micro-heuristics) A checklist A mind-map Develop your own Tool KIT...

Biases or the view that we hold of products is influenced by the exposure that we have had growing up around such products and their default behavior.  What biases that we hold got to do with testing and generating test ideas or product development in general? I logged on to Amazon.com to place an order for a multipurpose folding lap desk. Upon reading some of the user reviews, I learned that this particular product was designed for right-handed users. Intrigued I began learning about it and found that "T here are 800 million left-handed people on this planet." Referenced from the link . This is a large userbase and to build products for this group is profitable yet we find ourselves amidst an influence or bias that we limit the scope to right-handed users. This bias may not be a predisposition that we hold, consciously. It could be ignorance, even. So what can we as testers do to address this? Learning to unbias is a start. We can question the design, impleme...

An attempt at collating testing ideas to test image/s inducted for a product. There is scope to add ideas relating to relevant image association, handling missing images, accessibility, securing and addressing the quality of the added image.  Terms of use: If you are working on image induction (single, bulk), image testing, image search, on an e-commerce site this can be used (only) as a reference.  Feel free to find a context to test in various other contexts. Happy testing.

If and when we test Maps, we need to be in the context in which maps are asked for to be implemented. Here is one such context and test ideas to test Map(s) implemented using jVectorMap on a webpage are listed in the form of this Mindmap created using xmind . Use and share your ideas on performance tests performed by you on maps. Happy testing.