PNSQC 2013 - Lee Copeland
summary
Argues there are no best practices, only context-specific good practices; distinguishes automated checking (confirmation) from exploratory testing (discovery); surveys crowdtest platforms like uTest and Mob for Hire and the Weekend Testers model; promotes TDD/ATDD as tests-as-specs; recommends open-source tools (open-sourcetesting.org), virtualization that cuts environment setup by 30–50%, and cloud rental at about $0.10–$1/hour; highlights How to Break Software’s 14 defect categories and TPI’s 20 key areas for targeted process improvement.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 1:32What Is An Innovation?
- 3:01Context-Driven School
- 7:32Trends and Innovations
- 9:47Crowdsourced Testing
- 11:05The Weekend Testers
- 20:36Exploratory Testing
- 23:30Test-First Development
- 27:40ATDD
- 29:58Really Good Books
- 36:17(Big) Testing Conferences
- 37:36(Small) Testing Workshops
- 40:09Freedom of the Press
- 42:35Open Source Tools
- 46:09Virtualization
- 49:17Testing in the Cloud
- 51:29TPI
