Michael Bolton on Testing vs. Checking Henrik Emilsson
I just want to promote a really good blog post written by Michael Bolton where he describes the difference between Testing and Checking:
http://www.developsense.com/2009/08/testing-vs-checking.html
I wish that many managers, testers and developers read this post…
Cheers,
Henrik
I wish that many managers, testers and developers read this post.
Or you could read it to them.
Thanks for the kind words, Henrik.
—Michael B.
Michael! You are our hero, but you know that don’t ya? =)
The developers in my team read it as well and thought it was an eye opener.
I guess we should start to look closer at what words we and our co-workers use in our daily work around testing. I am sure phrases such as “Test if it works!” comes up every now and then. Would also be interesting to see how checking, verification, validation and testing is used.