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A Close Look at the Five Schools of Software Testing
By Scott Barber and Karen N. Johnson
Scott Barber
is the Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus. He is the Executive Director of the Association for Software Testing and also the co-founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability.
Karen N. Johnson
is an independent software test consultant with 15 years of experience in software testing and software test management.
This IT Briefing is based on a Hewlett-Packard Company/TechTarget Webcast, “ACloseLook at the Five Schools of Software Testing.”This TechTarget IT Briefing covers the following topics:• What is a School? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1• Analytic School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3• Standard School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4• Quality School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7• Context-Driven School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9• Agile School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11• Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13• Common Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
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IT Briefing:A Close Look at the Five Schools of Software Testing
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Software-testing experts often disagree withone another and for sound reasons, but upuntil 2003 it was difficult to have a conversa-tion with a fellow tester for lack of a commonframe of reference. This all changed whenBret Pettichord and some colleagues formu-lated a concept of schools, the Schools of Software Testing.The Schools of Software Testing began asfour and has since expanded to five schools:Analytic, Standard, Quality, Context-Driven,and Agile.The schools are meant to categorize beliefsand how they influence our tactical approachto testing, but they are not an absolute. Likeidentifying with a political party, it can be dif-ficult to align oneself with any single school.Rather ironically, the Context-Driven Schoolfocuses on the context of a project, so some-times the beliefs and the approach mightvary. Also, there may be people who, just likethe political parties, prefer to classify them-selves as independents. Still others mayreject the idea of a label altogether.
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Software-testing experts often disagree with one another and for sound reasons, but up until 2003 it was difficult to have a conversa-tion with a fellow tester for lack of a common frame of reference. This all changed when Bret Pettichord and some colleagues formu-lated a concept of schools, the Schools of Software Testing.
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