Cargo Cult Testing (testing as ritual rather than science)
Cargo Cult Testing (testing as ritual rather than science)
Submitted by Stuart Moncrieff's "My Load Test" blog on Tue, 15/05/2007 - 02:31.Richard Feynman popularised the idea of the cargo cult in his essay on cargo cult science, which was “science” that followed all the forms of scientific investigation, but lacked real critical scientific thought. The idea was transferred to the world of software courtesy of the Jargon File with its entry on cargo cult programming.The Jargon [...]