Using Quality Characteristics for Powerful Testing and Reporting
Rikard Edgren & Henrik Emilsson
Nordic Medtest
In this webinar, Henrik and Rikard will discuss the same topics as in their upcoming EuroSTAR tutorial Using Quality Characteristics for Powerful Testing and Reporting.
Have I really understood who the stakeholders are? Do I know what they value? Are my test strategies aligned with that? What information can I give them?
Part 1 – Understanding the animal
Analysing quality characteristics of a product in a specific context, in order to come up with reasonable and valid values that the product would possess.
Part 2 – Investigation party
Based on the quality characteristic analysis, we can focus on some of them and use them as a driver for our testing.
Part 3 – Tell the story
Tell a story of the product, based on the quality characteristics that has been investigated.
During the Q&A, one attendee asked if there was a sample of the quality characteristics in use. Rikard and Henrik have kindly shared the following link. On the TestEye.com, you will find such a sample.
Key Takeaways:
- Know your stakeholders
- Words about quality are powerful
- Remember that testing is never better than the communication of the results
In our September Webinar series we also feature webinars from Rob Sabourin, Pini Reznik and Lisa Crispin.
About Me!
Rikard Edgren describes himself as a humanistic and technical tester since 1998, specialized in generalities like test strategy and exploratory testing. Thus far Rikard has had eight speaking appearances at EuroSTAR and was a winner of the Best Conference Tutorial Award in 2014, and Programme Chair in 2018. Rikard is a member of the think-tank The Test Eye, co-author of Software Quality Characteristics, author of The Little Black Book on Test Design and Den Lilla Svarta om Teststrategi and a contributor the EuroSTAR’s recent publication ‘The Little Book of Testing Wisdom‘. Rikard currently works as Test expert at Nordic Medtest, Karlstad, Sweden, working with Swedish healthcare infrastructure.
Henrik Emilsson have a long and broad experience in the software testing field and currently holds the position as Test Strategist at Nordic Medtest in Sweden. He is one of the founders of the think tank The Test Eye (www.thetesteye.com); co-founder of the Swedish test conference Let’s Test; and have arranged two SWET-meetings (Swedish Workshop on Exploratory Testing). He has been a speaker at EuroSTAR (2005, 2012, 2016), CAST (2011), and several other conferences. Henrik has created a two-year course in software testing (college of higher vocational studies) where he also was a teacher. He has also been teaching on several other courses, including in Software Test Design at Karlstad University. Other engagements worth mentioning is his two-time appearances in the EuroSTAR TestLab, and co-founder of the local chapters of SAST (Swedish Association for Software Testing) in Gothenburg and Karlstad.