{"id":170,"date":"2006-05-30T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/smart-testing\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:32:47","slug":"smart-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/smart-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.developerdotstar.com\/mag\/bios\/scott_sehlhorst.html\" title=\"Software Development Article Author Bio Page for Scott Sehlhorst\">Scott Sehlhorst<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.developerdotstar.com\" rel=\"tag\">developer.*<\/a>)has written a concise article on how to do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.developerdotstar.com\/mag\/articles\/test_smarter_not_harder.html\">smart software testing<\/a>. While I have worked with non-technical people who wanted &#8220;full-coverage&#8221; testing of all builds, and have also worked with non-technical people who wanted to skip testing and just go live and &#8220;fix it in the field,&#8221; I have not previously had the numbers to say &#8220;yes, this has been tested and we are 99% confident that the application is 99% bug free.&#8221; Without having the numbers and formulae at hand the best I could previously say was &#8220;I am pretty confident that it is mostly bug-free.&#8221; Well, I know that the 99\/99 numbers sound a lot more confident than that, and I am less likely to spend a week running tests to get as close to full coverage as possible now that I have this bit in my tool-belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Sehlhorst (developer.*)has written a concise article on how to do smart software testing. While I have worked with non-technical people who wanted &#8220;full-coverage&#8221; testing of all builds, and have also worked with non-technical people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[148,149],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-tools","tag-development","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}