It has been a commonly held belief that an ever growing list of manual test cases, kept and maintained by the QA team is the best way to provide training, metrics and a roadmap for future automation efforts. But what if this base assumption is wrong? What if instead of having just a number of passing or failing test cases, we could better speak to factors like risk and quality before our products go live and have a little extra time to be creative with our testing? Rebecca Peterson wants to teach you the steps she and her coworkers have made to move towards living documentation that can...
Rebecca Petersen
Software Quality Engineer
Mountain America Credit Union
Rebecca Petersen started her testing journey in college when the Teaching Assistant mentioned that the testing done for a programming homework assignment might have gone “a little overboard”. It’s been 8 years and a couple of jobs since then and there is nothing to stop her passion for quality. She’s worked with various methods of manual testing documentation and passionately spent time working to improve each style. In between bouncing around development teams she constantly maintains some form of automation or other programming side project at all times.