Arvin Gaw | Comments

'Investigative' testing 'Analytical exploration' 'Strategic validation' 'Cognitive' testing All these simply mean 'testing'. i just go by 'black box' tester, 'grey box' tester, or 'white box' tester. The color differentiation already tells people if i tinker in code or not during my testing. :)

re: 'Alice and Bob' -- quantify Bob's qualitative monitoring, to extrapolate system modeling.

Test Drag: Test activity debt accumulated over time, that must still be accounted for.

Testing Saturation Point: the only limit when testing can halt.

the law of diminishing returns: the incremental info gleaned is less for each successive test run

A Quality Advocate isn't / shouldn't be about auditing the work of your fellow testers. When you have testers testing under you / for you, they have already been coached to be critical-thinking, and exploratory. ... rather the sup's job is to see if there's an expanded way to model the product under test, to give a more justified evaluation. --https://testersmusings.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-quality-advocate-test-supervisor.html