Posted by Ben Simo
It's good to have some idea as to what something does before you start testing it -- or eating it.
Cookie Monster does a little testing in a 1967 IBM training film.
Thanks to UtterlyGeek.
What do you call this kind of testing?
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1. The value of any practice depends on its context.
2. There are good practices in context, but there are no best practices.
3. People, working together, are the most important part of any project's context.
4. Projects unfold over time in ways that are often not predictable.
5. The product is a solution. If the problem isn't solved, the product doesn't work.
6. Good software testing is a challenging intellectual process.
7. Only through judgment and skill, exercised cooperatively throughout the entire project, are we able to do the right things at the right times to effectively test our products.
2 Comments:
May 06, 2007-
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May 18, 2007
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Ben Simo wrote:
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Hi Ben,
love this one
awakes memories to Willy coyote (from RoadRunner). Willy also should have tested more before trying his inventions :-)
Some elements like "wish for eating" and "self destruction" are selling gags.
Well, I would call this "kind of testing" then no-matter-what-you-do-somehow-you-get-killed-TESTs :-)
(we do not know, if cookie monster would have really not eaten the device, when the function of the device would have been announced to him earlier - perhaps he does not believe the spoken specification ? )
Erkan
Cookie Monster definitely does not suffer from analysis paralysis. In fact, all his analysis seems to be focused on the taste and/or hunger-removing properties of the computer -- except that he bypasses the inexpensive and cheap component.
Or maybe he is performing durability testing.
The computer's narration does appear to direct Cookie Monster's attention. Perhaps he needs to defocus. :)
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