Ever since James Bach and Michael Bolton introduced the Testing and Checking distinctions in to my testing world, I have embraced them. For me, they were the missing piece to my vocabulary regarding testing. I knew there was differences between what my automation was doing and what I was doing, but I couldn’t articulate that. However this isn’t the case for everyone, there are many people who don’t see the benefit in the distinction, and refuse to use them. That’s OK. However for me, I like it, I use it, and I encourage others to use it.
In this talk I want to share with you my experiences of using the terms in several workplaces. How I’ve had great success in educating others about testing using these terms, and how it’s changed their views on my work. How adopting these distinctions has allowed me to think deeper about the role of automation in testing, and allow me to get the most out of tools. How my communication about my testing has improved, but also how others talk about testing with me has improved, allowing us to align and work smarter and faster.
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All the videos from 2016 are at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5ERStlaHg&list=PL_9ioxG4tU7sz_BwjPjHeLWr2CIoFNT10