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And we're in the mood to give a ticket to one lucky person who can share a test idea in 99 characters or less.
To enter, write your test idea in the comments. Make sure it is less than 99 characters!
We'll choose a winner on the 17th of August 2025.
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Ag
the law of diminishing returns: the incremental info gleaned is less for each successive test run
Ag
Testing Saturation Point: the only limit when testing can halt.
Ag
Test Drag: Test activity debt accumulated over time, that must still be accounted for.
Rob
To persuade a reluctant group to adopt your ideas, start to use them yourself to set an example
Bob Salmon
Alice thinks all testing should produce objective results: numbers etc. that can go into a spreadsheet and have calculations performed on them, with easy to automate tests. Bob thinks the only valuable testing produces subjective results: how easy to use the software is, how much it solves a user's problem, etc. How do they communicate and collaborate?
(Just two characters: Alice and Bob ;-))
Rosie Sherry
Consider the alternative meaning of words as an excuse to test the boundaries. 👆😁
Aj Wilson
Verify shift-left testing catches UI bugs during component development, BEFORE integration.
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Testing is not quality, but sampling and vice versa also, quality is not testing but a mindset.
Frederick Vandenbosch
Dare to challenge the team during postmortems so there is a focus on prevention and not only a fix!
Preeti
Testing is a mindset which can not be limited to documents
Michael Close
You say say it's clear!
Have you viewed it through a straw?
Have you viewed it zoomed in by 400%?
Ag
re: 'Alice and Bob' -- quantify Bob's qualitative monitoring, to extrapolate system modeling.
Jayateerth Katti
Explore & experiment. Uncover more problems.
Christer Nilsson Ribbing
Test to uncover major flaws:
- people can get hurt or killed by the system
- the system crashes
- get money back from the system you're testing
Test to find all errors in the system
Test all the spelling in the system
Simon Tomes
This comment is full of test ideas; you just have to step away and then look a bit closer.
Arun
Test flows at cognitive/normal mode, wear the user's hat while testing and check it supports A11y.
Ramanan Prabakaran
Test undo buttons by smashing keys randomly expect chaos, log surprises, repeat!
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Test the software like a 5-year-old kid not a tester with the requirement... explore it... enjoy it
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