Testing Perspective
The testing perspective is a way of looking at any development product and questioning its validity. The person examining work products from this perspective utilizes a thorough investigation of the software and all its representations to identify faults. The search for faults is guided by both systematic thinking and intuitive insights. It is a perspective that makes reviews and inspections just as powerful a tool as execution-based testing. A review will almost never find something that is missing—that is, a review typically only seeks to validate what exists and does not systematically search to determine if all things that should be in the software actually are in it. The testing perspective requires that a piece of software ...
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