1. why test

   1. customer assurance

   2. developer's feedback

   3. establish baselines for further development and maintenance - regression

2. motivations

   1. programming is hard, programmers are dumb

   2. earliest detection is cheapest

   3. clarify specifications - dangerous

3. method

   1. customer specifies tests

   2. programmer designs, implements, executes and archives tests

   3. automation - no guru checks output

      1. testing is a non-human activity

      2. good testing is hard

      3. testing must be repeatable

      4. automated testing development - deja gnus, xUnit

   4. what kind of testing

      1. unit testing

      2. acceptance testing

This page last modified on 3 July 2001.