Jonathan Kohl » test scripts

Wean Yourself off Scripted Tests Scripted tests, or test cases that are written in advance, contain procedural steps to execute, and usually have some sort of “expected results” at the end ar...

http://www.kohl.ca/2007/getting-started-with-exploratory-testing-part-3/

Accountability. This is often a scary word for some people. Sometimes when we are fearful of the results of a decision, or of our work on a project, we will look at what we can do to offload resp...

http://www.kohl.ca/2006/placating-with-paper/

Cem Kaner has sometimes called detailed manual procedural test scripts “an industry worst practice”. I tend to agree. At one time I thought they were a good idea, but they lead to all kinds o...

http://www.kohl.ca/2005/procedural-test-scripts/

When I’m working on an agile project, (or any process using an iterative lifecycle), an interesting phenomenon occurs. I’ve been struggling to come up with a name for it, and conversations wi...

http://www.kohl.ca/2005/testing-debt/

I was recently part of a discussion on SHAPE about automated unit and functional testing. I was talking about buggy test code, and how frustrating (and sadly common) it can be to have automated t...

http://www.kohl.ca/2005/jerry-weinberg-on-test-automation/