7 Establishing and implementing a testing strategy

This chapter covers

  • How to prioritize and implement specific actions as part of our strategy
  • Why different strategies are required for different contexts
  • Formulating a plan based on a strategy
  • Analyzing a working context to create a successful plan

There is a saying that nearly every tester has said at some point in their career: you can’t test everything. Constraints such as budgets, deadlines, complexity, skillsets, and more can impact the amount of time we have to test and to learn. There is never enough time to test. To counter this, we need to be strategic about what we test and what we don’t.

Throughout part 2 of this book, we’ve explored a range of different testing activities that focus ...

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