{"id":37849,"date":"2016-10-20T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/?guid=8660194e41a1e46289f3ea4964529c64"},"modified":"2016-10-20T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T22:37:35","slug":"test-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/syndicated\/test-it-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Test it first!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><img height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/M8APWrLAvxIv5F6ZrdS7V51WHQJxELxYcJ58s1qHaKEvaiV2F5F2-YNRVuhDOuxABgN8yU4u7kDqtaEL3r1DYPJlEP-UTwWGuuRuapfftK65k3qHwAMnz0Zy2vuSxeTMQhbvaekc\" style=\"border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; transform: rotate(0rad); white-space: pre-wrap;\" width=\"602\" \/><\/div><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">image retrieved from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teluguone.com\/comedy\/content\/funny-time-jokes-658-29307.html\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">http:\/\/www.teluguone.com\/comedy\/content\/funny-time-jokes-658-29307.html<\/span><\/a><\/div><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-4f3f754b-e435-2d05-7a99-dc4af36714ee\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Title\u2019s pretty self explanatory. Or, is it? software testing\u2026<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><\/div><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">This can be a very fun process. You\u2019re basically trying to break things from all possible angles. Find bugs and you\u2019ve done your work correctly. Of course, the software development team\u2019s work just doubled! Or maybe backstepped all the way. <\/span><\/div><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Your responsibilities as a software tester are verifying and validating that a program, application or product pass all following tests:<\/span><\/div><ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">meeting business and technical requirements upon which design and development were constructed (You see where everything I\u2019ve talked about design and requirements in other blog posts gets us to?)<\/span><\/div><\/li><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">working as expected<\/span><\/div><\/li><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">possible implementation on multiple environments and use cases<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">No easy work, that\u2019s for sure. If some bug gets to the users, not only will the software development team be approached, but software testers as well. Why wasn\u2019t the bug discovered during testing?<\/span><\/div><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Before I go any further, aren\u2019t you wondering why computer bugs are called BUGS? I sure was... <\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">What does the world have against bugs? Poor animals. Well, back in the day computers were as large as classrooms, actual real-life, living bugs were a huge problem in these monstruous computers. You got rid of the bug, you got rid of a problem on your program. Funny how these terms stick through history, right?<\/span><\/div><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><img height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/GZg8MtPVt4-nG83ZWEQLPzoM9W3je9Xi6xG5zcYOe1b3fEqt_Rs-a-3T08vwxPm4Tvknwb4Nq_NqeJACmKzFwEqe_0nE6E1NarXQ5OQGuRxseaAtF0nc3X0DpWKrSdBMoG46vpwe\" style=\"-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);\" width=\"464\" \/><\/span><\/div><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">image retrieved from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderopolis.org\/wonder\/is-a-computer-bug-an-insect\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">http:\/\/wonderopolis.org\/wonder\/is-a-computer-bug-an-insect<\/span><\/a><\/div><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Perhaps I\u2019ll be saying this in every blog from now on, but <\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">in a previous blog post<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">, I talked about the Software Lifecycle. Remember? Please do :(<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Software testing is an essential part of the SDLC. It is at this point (no matter the methodology) that you might find bugs that will throw you back some steps of the development process. Fix those bugs, test again, and pray it all goes <!--more-->.<\/span><\/div><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">You might want to think about some types of software testing:<\/span><\/div><ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Static<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> testing can find bugs without executing code! It\u2019s done during verification process. Documents and source code are reviewed. All this in terms of walkthrough, inspection, etc.<\/span><\/div><\/li><li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Dynamic<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> testing includes actual execution of the code. It\u2019s done during validation process. All this in terms of unit testing, integration, system testing, etc.<\/span><\/div><\/li><\/ul><b style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><br \/><\/b><br \/><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">You surely do tests all day long, for everything. In fact, everything you know now is surely only the conclusions upon which you have arrived after doing some tests of validity (hopefully). I mean, don\u2019t you try several clothes on before leaving your house? try several keys for your door before finding the right one? try that new food on the menu? In BIG terms, everything you\u2019re doing in your life right now is a big testing you do on yourself to see if what you\u2019re doing makes you a happy person. You\u2019re a professional tester already.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">You might not be that far from being a software tester\u2026<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">These were the coolest sources I found for the information I present here: <\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/istqbexamcertification.com\/what-is-a-software-testing\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">http:\/\/istqbexamcertification.com\/what-is-a-software-testing\/<\/a><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\/Tips\/351122\/What-is-software-testing-What-are-the-different-ty\">http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\/Tips\/351122\/What-is-software-testing-What-are-the-different-ty<\/a><\/div><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br class=\"kix-line-break\" \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Go have fun testing your path through life in search for happiness :)<\/span><\/div><div><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image retrieved from http:\/\/www.teluguone.com\/comedy\/content\/funny-time-jokes-658-29307.htmlTitle\u2019s pretty self explanatory. Or, is it? software testing\u2026This can be a very fun process. You\u2019re basically trying to break things from all possible angles. Find bugs and you\u2019ve done your work correctly. Of course, the software development team\u2019s work just doubled! Or maybe backstepped all the way. Your responsibilities as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/syndicated\/test-it-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Test it first!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37850,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37849\/revisions\/37850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenscourses.com\/tc1019fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}