Thursday, September 19, 2013

A bug template to make everyone's life better

For logging a bug, the format that the data is in makes a huge difference in how fast someone can understand the problem.

This bug template has been created by iterative refinement via many many people across at least 5 companies.

Bug title:
[Area]: [operation] [causes/impacts] [type of failure (exception, log message)]

Bug body:
Environment (internal, cloud, local – add credentials if necessary)
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Pre-Conditions
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Steps to reproduce
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Bug Description
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Notes (Expected results, Workarounds, points of interest)
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I hope that this gets used, and adopted and changed to make your life better.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Scrum testing - Is it a bug? Is the story "done"?



Someone on my team mentioned "I’m on the fence about some of the bugs I found today.[...]"



I immediately fired off the following questions:
Will an administrator be confused by this data?
Will it generate a support call?
Does it meet the greater goal of the feature?

I think these are useful, especially when evaluating a scrum story. 
What do you ask specific to scrum testing?