Today (March 17, 2010) I gave a presentation at the Swiss Testing Day in Zürich, Switzerland. The talk was about 25 minutes long and I had a great questioning section at the end.

The presentation was about that testing is approving, accepting and exploring. Most testers only approve software and some explore it. But how is software accepted? Software can be accepted when we know we have tested what we needed to test. To know this we have to get information on what we have tested and what we haven’t tested. A tester interprets different information on what needs to be tested. This information should be documented in requirements, but there are more requirements that are not documented that needs to be taken into account to accept a software product. Good information on all requirements is needed to get to know what is tested! Accepting the software is a task for the users, but how can the users be helped. Crowds can help accepting software.

1. Software Testing Services Says:
   August 18th, 2010 at 09:46

   I totally agree that software is approved after it has been thoroughly tested. Testing is carried by a person called as tester which tests the software which is documented. After that comes the accepting testing which is done by the user. You have mentioned a testing called the crowd which helps the user in acceptance testing. I have seen the video that is really helpful in knowing what crowd testing does. Thanks for sharing it.

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