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Software Testing Lessons from Brief Counselling and Therapy

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Some notes on Brief Counselling and Therapy approaches applied to Software Testing.

Create Software Test Ideas Fast Using Presentation PreparationTechniques

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A little history… As I did my best to teach a tester how to write test ideas for an Agile story I found myself wondering why I found coming up with ideas and questions a fairly easy activity and why they seemed not to find it quite so easy. Practice would have had something to do with it, but I also suspected a slightly different mental model.

Notes on 'abstraction' and 'equivalence classes' in Software Testing

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Abstractions can put your testing in danger if you don’t handle them correctly. So some hints and tips on handling the abstraction known as an ’equivalence class’ may help.

An exploration of, and notes on, model path analysis for Testing

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Path Analysis for Software Testing

TLDR; This essay explores the use of graph models in testing and the practice of structural path derivation using 3 coverage concerns: node coverage, link coverage and loop coverage. Predicate coverage is considered but is not covered in detail. An exploration of, and notes on, model path analysis for testing: