The dark art of testing

25 September

Testing is like the dark arts. It hides in the shadows of projects probing silently, mocked openly and looked down with disdain by those who think they know better. But do they? 

Testing was seen like this even by testing consultancies as they espoused the rhetoric that testing is simplistic, mechanical and artifact driven. The implied idea was that ‘any one can do testing’ was prominent. Fortunately two communities began to challenged these ideas. The context driven community broke the fallacies of mechanical, simplistic testing to human based, skill based, thought provoking investigations of self, product and relationships. The second community was the agile community who helped challenge the ideas of heavyweight documentation and adherence to process to one of experimentation with short feedback loops. With this came a more technical approach to testing using tools to assist (though sometimes there is an over reliance on these tools). 

Our agile testing course looks to combine these two communities together by building key skills around critical thinking, using heuristics to build solid testing models and focusing on quicker feedback and leaner documentation. In turn, building these key skills then help testers to be better equipped to understand the agile context.  Testing in an agile context requires quick, critical, skilled thinking and combined with some technical understanding enables testers to answer this question – ‘how do I add value to my team today?’ 

Our agile testing course is very hands on and experiential and looks to increase testing skills that help you become better in your role and add value.  Testing is no longer in the shadows – it is front and centre and is our mission to help you to become indispensable to your team. The question is – how much better do you want to be as a tester?’

Post by Brian Osman

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