Successful tester
Software Tester must possess the below guidelines t o be successful, • Concise: As simple as possible and no simpler. • Self-Checking: Test reports its own results; needs no human interpretation. • Repeatable: Test can be run many times in a row without human intervention. • Robust and logical: Test produces same result now and forever. Tests are not affected by changes in the external environment. • Sufficient: Tests verify all the requirements of the software being tested. • Necessary: Everything in each test contributes to the specification of desired behavior. • Clear: Every statement is easy to understand. • Efficient: Tests run in a reasonable amount of time. • Specific: Each test failure points to a specific piece of broken functionality; unit test failures provide "defect triangulation". • Independent: Each test can be run by itself or in a suite with an arbitrary set of other tests in any order...
