October 2009
Beginner
350 pages
11h 10m
English
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Chapter 6. Bug Management and Test Case Effectiveness
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
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Why should a quality assurance (QA) engineer care how “beautiful” a test and bug management system is? Although no one understands exactly what beauty is, there does seem to be a useful relationship between beauty, simplicity, and truth. When this relationship is applied in mathematics and the physical sciences, it is often known as Occam’s Razor. It assumes that beautiful and simple explanations of natural phenomena are more likely to be true than ugly and convoluted ones. Sir Isaac Newton put it this way: “We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” Although we can find examples of this principle being applied in structured programming, object-oriented design (OOD), and design patterns, beauty and simplicity aren’t yet common considerations in bug management or QA test design. In this chapter we discuss how to manage bugs and measure test case effectiveness. We hope you will find this approach to be more beautiful, simple, and true than the more common haphazard QA approaches, which often stray from the scientific method and rely a bit too much on luck.
Bug Management
The following sections explain bug management.
The First Bug Found
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