Life in Testing
It is easy to let your regression suite get out of hand. We tend to throw every test case we create in the regression suite. It is a test case dump yard for everything test we create that isn’t in the smoke test. We want to make sure everything works as expected before each release. When we do this long enough, we end up with thousands of test cases.
Before you know it, your regression suite is a forest, when you only need a few trees. There has to be a better way.
Test cases are the keystone of the QA house. Test cases document functionality of the applications we test, training material for new team members, and the building blocks of our test plans. With them we can demonstrate and clarify what we are testing during our regression and production test runs. Without them the following problems arise:
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“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
This seems like one of the most obvious parts for testing in QA. After all, it’s our artifact in Agile and the testing process. Believe it or not, I still see this fundamental lost in testing teams. Why is that? Why do we need test plan anyways?