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Category Archives: heuristics
Applying the SFDPOT heuristic to mobile testing, adding “I”
After years of SFDPOT being created by James Bach and used by many testers, James has amended SFDPOT to include “I” for interface testing. A couple of weeks back someone contacted me via Twitter and asked me about “I” for … Continue reading
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BI + Agile + ET in a mind map of charter possibilities
Data warehouse/business intelligence (BI) projects are different. The primary reason BI testing is so different (from say web application testing) is that most of the testing within a BI project is data reconciliation testing for which there is no visual … Continue reading
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Testing Mnemonics as a Card Deck
I have an interest in helping testers new to exploratory testing or experienced testers who may feel be at a loss for testing ideas from time to time. That interest is the primary purpose behind a new class I’m working … Continue reading
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Applying the SFDPOT heuristic to mobile testing
One of the comments I’ve made about mobile testing is that we need to “find our mobile sanity” in part what I mean by this is – we need to recognize that everything we’ve learned about software testing doesn’t change … Continue reading
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Linguistic heuristics
Searching. I’m currently testing a product that has a search feature. I’ve tested search functionality before but not a multilingual search engine that utilizes two different search engines based on the language selected. Nor have I previously worked with a … Continue reading
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