Test design links (biased toward exploratory testing)

Here are some links I will point to when people ask me about test design. Add more in the comments and I’ll promote them to the main posting.

Mnemonics

  • Michael Bolton on:

    • SF DePOT (Structure, Function, Data, Platform, Operations, and Time) here and here

    • CRUSSPIC STMPL (capability, reliability, usability, security, scalability, performance, installability, compatibility, supportability, testability, maintainability, portability, and localizability)

    • HICCUPPS (History, Image, Comparable Products, Claims, Users’ expectations, the Product itself, Purpose, Statutes)

    See also various of Bolton’s articles.

  • Adam Goucher on SLIME (Security, Languages, requIrements, Measurement, Existing)

  • Jonathan Kohl on MUTII (Market, Users, Tasks, Information, Implementation).

  • Michael Kelly on test reporting with FCC CUTS VIDS (Feature tour, Complexity tour, Claims tour, Configuration tour, User tour, Testability tour, Scenario tour, Variability tour, Interoperability tour, Data tour, Structure tour)

  • Ben Simo on testing failure handling with FAILURE (Functional, Appropriate, Impact, Log, UI, Recovery, Emotions)

  • Scott Barber on designing model workloads for performance testing with FIBLOTS (Frequent, Intensive, Business Critical, Legal, Obvious, Technically Risky, Stakeholder Mandated). (He has others that are outside the scope of this posting.)

Other reminders

Mind maps

Online course materials

Books

Things that ought to be in books

Videos

Thanks to Michael Bolton, Adam Goucher, Matthew Heusser, Jonathan Kohl, and Chris McMahon for links.

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