Comments on: Testing: What is a defect? http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/18/testing-what-is-a-defect/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Yip http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/12/18/testing-what-is-a-defect/comment-page-1/#comment-2175 Jason Yip Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:22:53 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=752#comment-2175 It's worth looking at Lean Product Development and the Toyota Product Development System to understand how to think about this better. What we're really thinking about is efficiency of detection. Some "defects" are really things we are learning about how the technology works. If we are having to re-learn, that's a defect. One way to think about this is that testing to a specification is waste (although perhaps necessary waste) while testing to understand boundaries is quite valuable. It’s worth looking at Lean Product Development and the Toyota Product Development System to understand how to think about this better. What we’re really thinking about is efficiency of detection. Some “defects” are really things we are learning about how the technology works. If we are having to re-learn, that’s a defect.

One way to think about this is that testing to a specification is waste (although perhaps necessary waste) while testing to understand boundaries is quite valuable.

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