Generating Test Ideas
It is interesting to analyze what we subscribe to and are involuntarily subscribing to, especially when we are in the beacon-range of active signals. In one such encounter, I overheard two people conversing on the pathway. Person A to B says, ‘with an additional 10000 rupees neither are you going to become rich nor I will become poor by lending it to you’. Bringing this analogy to testing, with every idea generated while testing how greatly the quality of the product can be improved. The quest for test ideas is unending for anyone who is test-obsessed. The generation of ideas is limited to the current know-how we have of the domain, technology, hardware supported, implementation technique used. Testing can be performed with this limited knowledge. To deep dive, a tester needs to extend the know-how and generate more such ideas by integrating lessons from different schools of testing, refer knowledge work of expert testers and themselves contribute to this body of work. An...