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Very Short Blog Posts (36): Positive, Negative, and Sympathetic Testing

In Rapid Software Testing, a “positive test” is one that honours every required and explicitly declared condition or factor for a desired outcome. A “negative test” is one that violates (or dishonours, disrespects, ignores, omits, undermines…) at least one required and explicitly declared condition. That said, we don’t talk very much about positive and negative testing. We do talk about “sympathetic testing“, a closely related idea named by Cem Kaner. … Read more

Rapid Software Testing in Toronto, June 4-6

I don’t usually give upcoming events an entire blog post. I usually post upcoming events in the panel on the right. However, this one’s special. I’m presenting a three-day Rapid Software Testing class, organized by TASSQ in Toronto, June 4-6, 2018. Rapid Software Testing is focused on doing the fastest, least expensive testing that still completely fulfills testing’s mission: evaluating the product by learning about it through exploration and experimentation. … Read more