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A Positive View of Negative Testing
By James Lyndsay
  
Summary: Negative testing is a core skill of experienced testers, and requires an opportunistic, exploratory approach to get the best value from the time spent. It can find significant failures and produce invaluable strategic information about the risk model underlying testing, and allow overall confidence in the quality of the system. Negative testing is open-ended and hard to plan granularly. It needs to be managed proactively rather than over planned. Although negative testing is a powerful and effective approach, it is also a hard-to-manage task that has the potential to produce unwelcome information. In this paper, James Lyndsay explains the value of using this testing method. | | |
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This paper was originally presented at STAREAST 2003 — a conference produced by Software Quality Engineering. For more information on this conference, visit the current STAREAST Web site.
About the Author
James Lyndsay is an independent consultant with more than ten years experience. After working in analysis, coding, and testing at IBM and in the City, he formed Workroom Productions in 1994. As a Test Strategist, he has spent the last eight years working with multinational corporations, long projects, and even the occasional start-up. His business experience includes banking, telecoms, utility billing, logistics, electronic publishing, and retail, and he pays keen attention to the way that his clients’ focus is shifting away from functional testing. James holds an MA (Physics!), and is a regular speaker at conferences in the US and Europe. He’s also a SIGiST member and holds an ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing. James is a director of The Manual Ltd.; a not-for-profit organization that gathers and publishes basic skills.
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