Where do we testers invest our testing effort and time?
Before we proceed: This is not a measure or an estimate of the testing time and effort. Do you have Testers in your team asking for time to test more than what is allotted as time for testing? Ever wondered why Testers need that time and how it gets utilized? Here is a mind-map I put together to capture where I spent my testing effort and time. Is it effective use of testing time? Answer for yourself. Testers, take a look at the distribution of testing effort and time across the nodes in this mind-map. Do you consider time spent researching, learning and communicating with right sources of knowledge as testing time? Give it a good thought and action on where you are spending your testing effort and time. Remember that attendance at meetings and conferences, a talking assignment, interactions with knowledge sources are not time off from testing but to be considered by us testers as testing time so that when we talk to our team we are assertive w...