what developer need to know about software testing Myths about software testing what is software testing testers rights

1. What Developers need
to know about software
testing
Mohamed Talaat Shalash
Qualification engineer
Orange Labs Cairo

2. Agenda
O Myths about software testing.
O 7 testing key principles.
O what developers need to know.
O Testers’ rights.
O References.

3. Myths About Software Testing
O “Software testing is easy job, any people
can become tester and no training is
needed” .
O “Software testing doesn’t require
programming” .
O “Software testing doesn’t require much
analysis and innovative thought” .
O “Testing is not challenging so I don’t have
much chance to growth in testing career” .

4. Myths About Software Testing
1- “Software testing is easy job, any people
can become tester and no training is
needed”
Reality:
 It takes hours to start testing job but years to
be good at it.
 Tester and developer requires two different
set of skills and mindset. Good developer
can’t become good tester.
 Software testing has its own process, levels,
types, approaches, tools, and techniques.

5. Myths About Software Testing
2- “Software testing doesn’t require
programming”
Reality:
 What you learn from university is just a starting
point for pursuit a career in IT.
 Automation, performance, security testing not only
require programming but also deep understanding
about system, technology.

6. Myths About Software Testing
3- “Software testing doesn’t require much
analysis and innovative thought”
Reality:
 Testing is not just test execution, you can see
many tester not doing testing .
 Testing based on requirements only find 70%
bugs. Innovation helps tester find the rest .
 We normally don’t know how user use the
software; strong analysis, deep domain
knowledge, lateral thinking is required for
tester.

7. Myths About Software Testing
4- “Testing is not challenging so I don’t have
much chance to growth in testing career”
Reality:
 A company likely will go to the end if releases a
low quality product.
 Role of tester now is not just testing. Combined
skills of (Developer + BA + Tester + Expertise
User) .
 Many IT companies in VN are testing service
providers – top management grew from testing .

8. 7 Testing Key Principles
1. Testing shows presence of Defects.
2. Exhaustive Testing is Impossible!
3. Early Testing.
4. Defect Clustering.
5. The Pesticide Paradox.
6. Testing is Context Dependent.
7. Absence of Errors Fallacy.

9. What Developers Need to
Know
O The product is more than software.
O Quality is more than the lack of bugs.
O Quality assurance is more than testing.
O Testing is hard to do.
O You can make testing easier to do.
O Collaboration is the right approach – we
work to common goal.

10. Testers rights
O Testers have the right to sample their process
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inputs, and reject poor quality work.
Testers have the right to unambiguous and clear
requirements.
Testers have the right to test evolutionary early as
the system increments.
Testers have the right to integrate their test
specification into the other technical specifications.
Testers have the right to be a party to setting the
quality levels they will test to.
Testers have the right to adequate resources to do
their job professionally.

11. Testers rights (Cont’d)
O Testers have the right to an even workload, and to
have a life.
O Testers have the right to specify the consequences
of products that they have not been allowed to test
properly.
O Testers have the right to review any specifications
that might impact their work.
O Testers have the right to focus on testing of agreed
quality products, and to send poor work back to the
source

12. References
O http://www.slideshare.net/kmstechnology/
become-software-tester-or-developer
O ISTQB Foundation Level
O http://www.satisfice.com/presentations/we
dntkat.pdf
O http://www.gilb.com/dl348%E2%80%8E