This article was published at EUROSTAR's Huddle as Experience-based Testing Strategies
On various software testing resources there are often mentioned some mysterious "Experience-Based Test Techniques". Teaching testing I always had a hard time trying to explain what is that. It's kind of very hard to teach "experience" :-) . One can present some practical task, designing it in a way that the students learn something, but it's impossible for them to learn exactly your experience.
In testing, we used to deal with such philosophical categories that cannot be explicitly described with a language of logic, like: Quality, Useful, Good, Good-enough, Experienced etc. (Say Hello to Plato!)
On various software testing resources there are often mentioned some mysterious "Experience-Based Test Techniques". Teaching testing I always had a hard time trying to explain what is that. It's kind of very hard to teach "experience" :-) . One can present some practical task, designing it in a way that the students learn something, but it's impossible for them to learn exactly your experience.
In testing, we used to deal with such philosophical categories that cannot be explicitly described with a language of logic, like: Quality, Useful, Good, Good-enough, Experienced etc. (Say Hello to Plato!)
Test Design Techniques by learnthebasicsofsoftwaretesting.blogspot.com
