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Testing, testing, 123

Why do we test software? This may seem an obvious question: everyone has at some point experienced the frustration of error-prone, or “buggy”, software. As software becomes increasingly pervasive in modern life, simple frustrations can quickly become much more serious. Just as traditional engineering disciplines involve testing of generated artifacts to ensure fitness for purpose, safety and durability, the same requirements are true for software, even though software engineering may seem abstract to a traditional engineer.

We are a group of senior software testers working in the IBM Hursley software labs in the UK. We work on large middleware projects, across multiple testing disciplines. This is an unofficial collection of our thoughts and ideas on software testing, based around our philosophy of risk-based testing. We want to share our ideas, and expand them based on other people’s thoughts. We feel that a blog is an ideal format for this: please contribute.

Arthur, Ben, Jon, Richard and Scott

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 15:56 by Arthur Barr. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Testing, testing, 123”

  1. Andy Piper Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 12:32

    What a great idea – an excellent addition to the growing stable of “Hursley blogs”. Good luck guys, I will be following this one with interest.

  2. Andy Piper Says:
    January 31st, 2008 at 12:35

    Oh, on request / bit of advice – can you make your feed contain full entries, or avoid the use of the [more] tag – for people following the blog using a feedreader, it can be annoying to have to click through to read a post :-)

  3. Arthur Barr Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:47

    Thanks for the comments, Andy. The feeds should now be coming through with the full text… enjoy.

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