QA/Testing

...said no one ever

What is Quality?

What is Quality?

• A product doesn't have any bugs?
• # open issues weighted for priority / # closed issues weighted for priority?
• Company processes/methods must meet a specific standard (ex. ISO 9000)?
  • But does a piece of software have quality if a team follows a rigid set of processes, tests it thoroughly to make sure it has no bugs, but then on release nobody wants to use it, or it fails to a competitor?

Testing

• Prevent regressions
  • Unit tests
  • Continuous integration

• User/customer testing
  • A/B tests
  • Usability testing

• Find new bugs
  • Functional testing
  • Exploratory testing
  • Black/Gray/White box testing
  • Performance testing
  • White hat hacking

Testing

• Prevent regressions
  • Unit tests
  • Continuous integration

• User/customer testing
  • A/B tests
  • Usability testing

• Find new bugs
  • Functional testing
  • Exploratory testing
  • Black/Gray/White box testing
  • Performance testing
  • White hat hacking

Software QA Testing

Confirm that the product works as expected

Then break it

How to break software

• Permute inputs and outputs
  • Orthogonal array techniques help reduce redundancy and help testers find bugs sooner
• Act in bad faith
  • Don't assume users are going to do the right thing
  • Hacking, malicious inputs

Cool, let's break stuff