Test Patterns and Test Anti Patterns
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Thu, 31/03/2005 - 20:50.
patterns
Well I know Brian Marick experimented with the a few years ago and has moved on to the exemplar approach, there are drafts of what I feel will become an excellent book on his site, see blogroll on testing reflections for the link to his site.
However I still feel there is mileage in the idea and Brian was just once more too far ahead of the wave. So i am going to start some blogs on the subject of test patterns, good ideas in a given context, and will use examples of these as well as metaphors to try and demonstrate the reason they are effective.
In addition, and in part this has been prompted by a guy I used to work with Mark Prince (one of the good project managers in my experience) and his love of anti-patterns - bad things to do in a specific context with examples, and a post on QA Forums earlier in the day by James Pulley on a performance anti-pattern: All tools are equivalent - so use this one tomorrow.
I will explore these ideas and present more patterns as they develop - hey who knows we may even get the testing patterns yahoo group active once more.
However I still feel there is mileage in the idea and Brian was just once more too far ahead of the wave. So i am going to start some blogs on the subject of test patterns, good ideas in a given context, and will use examples of these as well as metaphors to try and demonstrate the reason they are effective.
In addition, and in part this has been prompted by a guy I used to work with Mark Prince (one of the good project managers in my experience) and his love of anti-patterns - bad things to do in a specific context with examples, and a post on QA Forums earlier in the day by James Pulley on a performance anti-pattern: All tools are equivalent - so use this one tomorrow.
I will explore these ideas and present more patterns as they develop - hey who knows we may even get the testing patterns yahoo group active once more.