How much do you need to test?

Published on June 10, 2009

Developers love to develop, hate to test, though testing is more critical than everything. Ok maybe not everything. But when bugs happen, it runs hell.

Testing is a never-will-finish process and it is impossible to test every scenario. In a project where resources for full scale testing are limited, and developers themselves needs to be the testers, a shorter and more concise testing process is needed.

Minimal Testing Process is such a process. It is categorized into 4 parts that addresses:

  • New features/changes
  • Frequently used functionalities
  • Critical functionalities
  • Complex or error-prone use cases

Any test cases that are neither new, frequently used, critical nor complex are dropped. Simple.