Testing Is Activities, Not Artifacts

21 Aug 2024

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The top half of the picture is Indiana Jones cracking his whip with the text "Testing is Activities". The bottom half is Indiana Jones staring at a gold statue with the text "Not Artifacts".
This is a phrase I've come to use a lot to describe my frustration with so much of the testing community's obsession with paperwork and test artifacts--test strategy documents, test plans, test cases, etc. or constantly referring to "test" only as a noun (e.g. "writing tests"), and far too little emphasis placed on actually _testing_, doing the work, exploring, and finding problems.
Caleb Crandall
Senior Software Engineer in Test

Caleb has been developing and testing in regulated industries for over 13 years, focusing on improving testing efforts at every stage of the design, development, and release process.

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