Vinktank

People tend to use number of test cases, ratio of passed v failed test cases, number of defects found per test case or similar metrics as measures of how good a test strategy is. Although these metrics can give some indication, to my mind the best metric to measure the effectiveness of all your testing effort is how many unknown issues are found in production. By unknown issues I am referring to issues that were not detected prior to go live. ...

I get great satisfaction when I finally get an automated test to successfully run and pass, but I get more satisfaction when a passing test fails and picks up a defect. When automated tests are created they are normally created to pass and then used as a safety net to detect when a system stops behaving as it should. In the case of TDD, the tests will fail first, but start passing once the code has been developed. The ...