Don't blindly follow requirements

Each rule/requirement has a reason to exist and I firmly believe the written form of the rule is rarely 100% mirroring the intention.

A really nice example of this is the following situation:

Rule/Requirement -> Person on ID photo shouldn't have glasses on

My rejected photo

If you look closely you can see my glasses which is a clear breach of the rule.

PS: To you my fellow clerk in the Swiss Strassenverkehrsamt: I'm not angry at you, but when the AI kicks in, you will the first to be replaced by computer;)

Comments

When to start automation?

If you are asking this as a tester, you probably asking too late. Automation is something that can save you some portion of your work (understand resources for your client) and i rarely found cases of testing work that did not need at least some portion of automation. I know that it is rarely understood that automation is something to be developed & maintained and if you cover enough of the application, you do not need any more regression - well i do not think that somebody has done an automation regression suite that if fully reliable (i am not speaking about maintaining this code - which is another topic). There can be always a bug (or quality issue) that slips through, even when you scripts go through the afflicted part. I understand that many testers have no development background or skills, but i doubt the developers that could help you are far away. I am not assuming that they can do the scripts for you.... However if they understand what you need, they can say how e...

Testing impact on security

... or the impact when testing is lacking? Security breaches , hacks , exploits , major ransomware attacks - their frequency seem to increase recently. These can result in financial, credibility and data loss, and increasingly the endangerment of human lives. I don't want to propose that testing will always prevent these situations. There were probably testers present (and I'm sure often also security testers) when such systems were created. I think that there was simply a general lack of risk-awareness on these projects. There are many tools and techniques from a pure technical point of view to harden the software in security context. Some of them have automated scans which crawl through your website and might discover the low hanging fruits of security weaknesses ( ZAP , Burpsuite ...), without much technical knowledge from the person operating it. The more important aspect is however the mindset with which you approach the product. The tester is often the f...

Thrown into automation

Situation & Problem I was thrown into an automation test project. Concretely test automation of 3 different applications (different in purpose, look, structure, behavior) which regression testing was covered only by a automation test suite that was written in AutoIt and the size of the code was quite complex and huge for a new person in the automation. Well, that was not the problem, it is a description of the situation. The problems weren't initially visible. I was never automating before, so I needed to learn quite a bit of the code & got to know all the applications that were part of the project. The problems were not so appealing at the start, but I would formulate then as: Maintenance of the scripts took too long By new versions of the application, it took some time to adjust the scripts to the changes This caused delay in information flow from testers to managers & developers The changes in the application were not clearly communicated to testers...

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