Been thinking about the role of testing in a software organization. Steve Rowe of M$ has a great blog post on finding the right people for the job. He breaks it down into 3 types of roles that are useful in a test team:
- Runtime testers
- Scripters
- Tester Developer
Definitely a good read for understanding the type of personalities you would want when building a testing team.
It’s Common Sense, Stupid notes the difficulties in bootstrapping a GUI testing framework and what to expect out of it. These are good things to keep in mind when building out a UI test framework and putting realistic expectations on what you will get for the investment of effort.
I would also note that the blog posts on the difficulties of UI testing can be applied to larger scale system testing (ever test a router?) since one could view a GUI application is a little microcosm of a system that cannot be easily taken broken down into its components when trying to do integration testing.
