Sources of Test Ideas
Submitted the below problem statement as an abstract to speak at ConTEST NYC . Apart from gathering test ideas by referring to the requirements specification document, a new tester is at loss. What are our goto sources of test ideas? Why do we stop at the explicit sources of knowledge? How else can we testers/non-testers generate ideas to test? What has come to my rescue is being invested in learning from more than one source to gather test ideas. Diverging t o learn by observation, by questioning the requirements by donning the thinking hats, testing the design, implemented code, learning from all, and from different fields of study such as cognitive biases, prior experiences that a user and a tester has had testing in the same or similar domain helps to search and find ideas to test (by collecting information relevant to the application under test). W hat best way to learn than by asking relevant questions which translates to subjecting the application to tests that ...