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Futurice spending Quality Time on testing

Inspired by Google's Testing on the Toilet, Futurice has launched its own testing awareness campaign. The campaign, called Quality Time, is aimed at spreading knowledge regarding testing to Futurice employees. From today on a new episode will appear on the rest room wall of Futurice in both its Helsinki and Tampere offices. Besides residing on the rest room walls the episodes will also be posted on this blog. The first episode is below:

Quality Time is a Futurice awareness campaign to improve knowledge related to testing. Follow Quality Time at http://blog.futurice.com or on any Futurice rest room. Walkthrough Walkthrough is an easy way for the developer to find quality issues with his/her code and with the audience to learn the module or application What is a walkthrough? A walkthrough is a peer review method. It has generally 3 aims.

1. find problems
2. discuss alternatives
3. demonstrate or learn how the software works and meets requirements

How to do a walkthrough? This is dead simple. Get a peer (can be other developer, tester at least somebody who can read code) Guide the peer through your code . This can be done by following the execution path or class by class or what ever you and your peer like. The job of the peer is to ask questions. Why do you use ...., how do you know that this is always a that, Why .... This method also doesn't require executable code. Make sure you take notes of potential issues you find so you can investigate them later. These notes can also be used as QA proof A walkthrough is also very suitable to investigate a bug you can't nail down. PDF version: Quality Time 1: walkthrough