Monday, January 22, 2024

RAAMA: My Test Discovery Model

 

RAAMA -- I Look at You Everyday!


I have tried to put up one of my Test Discovery models in a conceptual way here with name RAAMA - Refer to, Arrange, Action, Monitor, and Assert.

Maybe this model helps you and your test engineering team as it is helping me.  Use this to your context with addition or subtraction for what you are seeking.

I refer to this RAAMA of me everyday and when I'm testing.  I'm finding the new learning and realization everyday that I was unaware earlier.  My understanding of RAAMA is not same what I had on the previous day.

My understanding of this RAAMA is incomplete and I have made PeACE with it by accepting it.  My understanding is growing and getting better everyday.  I will share a better version of it as I experience it.

Each time I look up to RAAMA and refer to it, I see a new dimension to RAAMA.  The awareness, exposure, and the questions are getting better giving the better realization of what I was ignorant and unaware.  The RAAMA is exposing me to be a better test engineer today than what I was earlier.



RAAMA - I Look at You Everyday!





RAAMA - One of my evolving models for Test Discovery


Note: I have not explained in detail what I mean for each node and its sub-nodes.  I can talk and discuss it with you if you look for it; I'm just one email away to get started.



Sunday, December 3, 2023

A Test Is Not a Metric

 

A test execution by human or automation will provide information to be aware & learn.

If there is a metric, it should be for what I got to be aware of & learned.  Not for the number of tests.  If it is for a test, it is blunder, before taking it as a metric.

One can identify infinite tests; automate adding annotation @test in big numbers. Should this number be a metric?

That is a question to ask when you see a metric on this number.


What is of value to you in this outcome from a test?  That value should have a metric, and not test or the number of tests.


Identifying the metric in a context which serves, is not easy.

Number of pass/fail or green/red is a measurement; not a metric!

Anything measured cannot be a metric.


A metric helps to measure in a way that establishes rational correlation & upholds its necessity in business.


Share this awareness!