Date: 06- Feb-2010
Timing: 3 pm – 5pm
Mission: A Group discussion about Testing, Traps in Testing, Requirements, Skills
Guest Participant: Dr Meeta Prakash.
Coordinated By : Parimala Shankaraiah , Ajay Balamurugadas
Participants:Ajay,Arun, Dhara ,Krishnaveni,Indra,Jaswinder,Last Samurai,Nitesh,Pari,Suman,Sunil,Ramakrishna,Rakshith
The Session started off with the question “What is Testing”?
Discussion continued on Topics like Traps in testing, Traceability ,Requirements and ended with important Skills needed in Testing.
Dr. Meeta Prakash very patiently replied to each of our queries and solved our doubts giving us some important leassons.She even Shared a link to understand Tree Diagrams which can be used to track traceability .
Overall the session was quite interesting and productive.
Major Discussion Highlights to remember:
What is Testing?
Testing is technical investigation/evaluation of the product to provide quality related information to the respective stakeholders
It is no different as applied to software from other domains &
the 2 aspects of verification and validation become the key identifiers while testing
What are the major Traps in Testing?
1. Not being able to ask the right questions
2. Aiming for a Quantity or number instead of quality of bugs.
Important Skills Needed for a Tester:
1.) Asking the right questions using the 3 columns approach
• Write the question
• Write key requirement coming out of it
• Track dependencies and outcomes.
2.) Objectivity in approach
• Objectivity means that you should not have a negative approach while testing. You should be able to see through the rationale behind each failure you observe
• To report each and every failure either as a defect or as an
• Not only just thinking of negative test cases but also be considering what way the software modularity flows and how can it be broken
The Entire Chat Transcript can be found here
Related Links:
WT 24 : Testers’ Day Out With Dr. Meeta Prakash
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