Quality Spy Overview

Quality Spy

Makes software testing fun again…

https://sourceforge.net/projects/qualityspy/

Some theory first

Developers know their enemy!

But sometimes…

What helps?

• Good development practices (constructive qa)• Good testing (analytical qa)

Quality Spy will improve your testing!

Even with best design practices software will contain errors. You can find them using Quality Spy. Nonethless good testing will never replace a solid design.

Who should do testing?

• Real beta-users

• Professional testers

• Any developer should be a tester to some degree, too

Anyone should be a Quality Spy! Not only pro-testers.

Therefore tools should be productive and easy to use.

Anyone should be a Quality Spy! Not only pro-testers.

Therefore tools should be productive and easy to use.

Quality Spy helps with…

• Defining a Test Strategy

• Plan-based Testing

• Exploratory Testing

• Lightweight Bugtracking

Defining a Test Strategy

• Do I really need this? Yes!

• Think early about how to test!

• Think about test subject, testing reason, time frame, test location, method, equipment, testers, acceptance criteria

Without a Strategy...

• … you search for bugs that don‘t matter and that is like:

Plan-based Testing

• Create a test plan with test cases similiar to what developers do with unit tests– Prefer single assertion and small tests

• Execute that tests and see the results

This is perfect for verification. You need it at some point to know what works. But it‘s not perfect for findings bugs.

Exploratory Testing

• Just start testing!

• Think of scenarios you want to test within the software

• Track what you are doing and finding

This is perfect for findings bugs and creating valuable feedback. It is not suited so well for verification. You don‘t see at a coverage-level what was tested.

Lightweight Bugtracking

• Test one feature in one run and track all bugs in one „document“

• Developers should bulk-fix that defects at „once“

This is perfect for early feedback. It helps that bugs don‘t get piled up and that you spend too much time organizing and managing them.

Now the program…

Quality Spy UI

Test Strategy

Test Plan

Test Runs

Test Run Summary

Execute the Test Plan

Protocols

Export to Mantis Bugtracker

Summary

Printable Reports

https://sourceforge.net/projects/qualityspy/

Download at sourceforge:

Contact for help and discussions:andreas.kleffel@googlemail.com