Interesting Facts on Beautiful Testing Book - Chapter 1

Interesting Facts on Beautiful Testing Book - Chapter 1

The 1st chapter of Beautiful Testing E book opens up with an incident an organization has undergone which had been able to embarrass,frighten and amuse different sets of employees in the same organization. 

The people who are amused by this incident are the testers. The testers are a different set of people who own  a different set of attitudes and they are completely different from the other IT staff of an organization.

Their amusement should not be criticized because they do it merely to forget the unpleasant situation. 

The testers are there in a team to find and reveal problems in a system  eliminating the risks to an organization, developers and customers.

Testers are not policemen, instead they needed to be treated as advisers  . Testers have the difficulty in managing risks with cost, marketing requirements and needs. Evaluating and accepting risks is a project for the testers. Another characteristic of the testers is that they are very reluctant to admit the system is 100% error free. 

According to the book the testers differ from other IT staff because they are paid for telling the truth. Its like telling some one that their baby is ugly and reasoning why.

Some qualities of the testers can be mentioned as follows. The testers are ;
curious, experimental, fearless, intelligent, analytical,learns fast and apolitical.

There are some bad qualities which are rooted with a tester. Such as; they are distrustful, critical about every thing, question every thing.

The people who are testing the others test cases just to complete the task can not be called testers. A good tester testes, update and edit others test cases if there are any drawbacks found instead of just ticking the list of test cases when  testing is over. 

Testers highly expect the developing team to fix the errors they find.
Another thing is that the testers figure out the errors using nice words to the team.

Finding a bug to a tester means finding a treasure to them.

The preparation for bug finding can be stepped as bellows;

1. Read all the required and related books.
2. Ask questions till they understand.
3. Prepare a plan

Encountering bugs depends on the learning and motoring rather than the intelligence lies with in them.

Project managers also get involved in testing because then it is easy to get to know the things that a tester is testing and next time can avoid that bug.

Some testers might not report all the bugs they find, thinking that they are never fixed.This is not a good practice for the testers.

The testers find bugs when compare the ability of the programmers, as they try to prove the system is not working properly, rather than proving it is working properly. They really like to find the ways which fails and breaks the system.

The testers needed to be appreciated for their good work. Otherwise the best will leave searching better opportunities.