The Reluctant Tester

This essay outlines an entry level guide to what testing and validation is, why it is important, and what it means to a technical project. It is my intent to get small teams from zero to testing in as short a time as possible with as few barriers as possible; to give them a foundation on which to build.

A. Suggested Reading

General Theory

Cathedral and the Bazaar
Good Bug Reports
Mozilla Bug Report Guidelines
Goodhart’s Law (measurement/objectives): measurement vs objectives. The two aren't always the same thing.

Guessing the Teachers Password & Goodhart’s Law

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ws/the_importance_of_goodharts_law/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/

Test Driven Development

http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

Tools

MozTrap

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/MozTrap

Automated Validation

Selenium Web Driver

http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/

TestNG Test Framework

http://testng.org/doc/index.html

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Table of Contents

Home
0.Introduction
1. Creating a Testing Culture
2. Implementing Effective Testing
3. Creating a Team That Tests
4. Integrating the Existing Processes
A. Suggested Reading

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