Demonstrations, Experiments, and Software Testing

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Demonstrations, Experiments, and Software
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Demonstrations, Experiments, and Software Testing
Did you know theres 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. Thats why its 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.
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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.

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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 encou
rage 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-exper
iments-software-testing
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