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In the software development life cycle, both the experiments and demonstrations are referred to by the same name known as u201ctestsu201d. While demonstrations are considered to tell us something that we knew before, experiments are envisioned to help us study things we need or want to know.<br>Read more: https://www.cigniti.com/blog/demonstrations-experiments-software-testing/
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Demonstrations, Experiments, and Software Testing Did you know there’s a difference between an experiment and a demonstration? Also, did you ever realize why this difference is critical to the team that includes coders, testers, and managers. In the software development life cycle, both the experiments and demonstrations are referred to by the same name known as “tests”. While demonstrations are considered to tell us something that we knew before, experiments are envisioned to help us study things we need or want to know. The difference is critical as the need of testing must not be simply to show that the product can work. We test to study about the product so that we can comprehend it well, and address glitches before it's too late. According to Michael Bolton, Lead Consultant, DevelopSense “The more similar a test is to a previous instance of it, the less likely it is to find a bug. That’s why it’s essential to include plenty of variation in your testing.” In one of his articles titled Alternatives to Manual Testing, Michael Bolton explains how experiential and exploratory testing are not the same.
Demonstrations, Experiments, and Software Testing A context-driven approach to Automation in Testing Test Automation can certainly do much more than simply feigning a user who is pressing buttons. Context-driven testers pick their testing purposes, practices, and deliverables by looking first at the facts of the explicit situation, including the needs of the investors who commissioned the testing. In a paper authored by James Bach, creator of Rapid Software Testing methodology, and Michael Bolton, “There are many wonderful ways tools can be used to help software testing. Yet, all across industry, tools are poorly applied, which adds terrible waste, confusion, and pain to what is already a hard problem. Why is this so? What can be done? We think the basic problem is a shallow, narrow, and ritualistic approach to tool use. This is encouraged by the pandemic, rarely examined, and absolutely false belief that testing is a mechanical, repetitive process. Good testing, like programming, is instead a challenging intellectual process. Tool use in testing must therefore be mediated by people who understand the complexities of tools and of tests. This is as true for testing as for development, or indeed as it is for any skilled occupation from carpentry to medicine.” The spirit of context-driven testing is a project-appropriate request for dexterity and finding. The context-driven testing places this approach to testing within a humanistic societal and principled framework. Eventually, context-driven testing is about doing the best we can with what we get. Rather than trying to apply “best practices,” we accept that very diverse practices will work best under different situations.
Demonstrations, Experiments, and Software Testing Cigniti invites you to join an interesting webinar where Michael Bolton, Lead Consultant, DevelopSense, will be joined by Kalyan Rao Konda, President, Cigniti, to discuss the difference between demonstrations and experiments in software testing. Kalyan will share insights on how Cigniti is assisting leading enterprises globally including the Fortune 500 in their Software Testing & Quality Engineering initiatives and accelerating their digital transformation. Register for the webinar and save your spot to listen to some interesting insights on June 4th, 2021. Being a worldwide leader in independent quality engineering services, Cigniti is a strong advocate of Quality Assurance and its implementation right from the initial stages of the software lifecycle. We encourage customer feedback and believe in including such feedback in our broader quality assurance approach. We take great measures to make sure that we are fully equipped with state-of-the-art services and have partnered with other experts that specialize in providing testing services. Talk to us. Read Full Blog at: https://www.cigniti.com/blog/demonstrations-experiments-software-testing
