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Freedom, Responsibility and the Tester's Choice

Posted Thu, 26/01/2012 - 12:48 by Paul Gerrard

Peter Farrell-Vinay posted the question “Does exploratory testing mean we've stopped caring about test coverage?”on LinkedIn here: http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=690977&type=member&item=8804...

I've replied on that forum, but I wanted to restructure some of the various thoughts expressed there to make a different case.

Do exploratory testers care about coverage? If they don't think and care about coverage, they absolutely should.

Is anyone researching HOW to choose a test model?

Posted Tue, 08/12/2009 - 20:33 by Paul Gerrard

The Project Euler site presents a collection of 'maths-related' problems to be solved by computer - 250+ of them and the site allows you to check your answers etc. You don't need to be a mathematician for all of them really, but you do need to be a good algorithm designer/programmer.

But it also reminded me of a recurring thought about something else. Could the problems be used as 'testing' problems too? The neat thing about some of them is that testing them isn't easy. Some problems have only one answer – they aren't very useful for testers - there is only one test case (or you need simply to write/reuse a parallel program to act as oracle). But others like problem 22 for example provide input files to process http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=22

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