Test Reporting - Chris Kenst

Test Reporting

A collection of 6 posts

How to Write a Good Bug Report, use RIMGEN

RIMGEN is an acronym and mnemonic (or memory aid) to help us remember the elements of a good bug report. It can be used to help anyone write a better bug report or review existing bug reports looking to make improvements. In general my preference with reporting bugs is to:

Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Charters in GitHub

Since CAST 2015 I’ve wanted to implement an interesting idea that could potentially give my testing greater visibility and greater scrutiny: Putting exploratory testing charters into our project tracking tool. At work we use GitHub to host our code which means we use GitHub Issues as our bug tracker.

NRG Global Test Competition Retrospective

Roughly two and a half weeks ago I competed in the first NRG Global Test Competition. The idea behind the competition was simple: get a bunch of people/ teams together to test a few products, split the competition into two days, one with functional testing and another with performance testing,

Feedback from a Developer (without knowing it)

Recently someone asked one of my developers if we created formal test plans. Since the conversation was in an email, my developer cc’d me on it and responded saying he wasn’t sure but he had seen me create test cases in our bug tracker, SpiraTeam. He wasn’t

Rapid Testing Intensive Confirmed!

Rapid Testing Intensive Confirmed!

(Stolen from the Rapid Testing Intensive site) It’s official I’m booked for the onsite Rapid Testing Intensive with James and Jon Bach at the end of July on Orcas Island in Washington. According to the website this testing intensive will be based on “… Session-Based Test Management and Rapid

5 Ways to Revolutionize your QA

I can’t remember where I originally found this post and the corresponding eBook but the eBook is definitely worth taking a look at. Here is the former uTest blog post, now Applause blog post. The 5 ways or insights are: 1. There are two types of code and they