Testing is Rocket Science Not Brain Surgery

Know what it is and how it is you’re going to test it far in advance of building out your testing capacity and before you’ve exhausted it.  It shouldn’t take a system collapse to justify more funding for your testing infrastructure.  Instead we have to learn to build the cost justifications and speak to the ramifications of failing to expend effort more convincingly to begin with.  We should all know the graph that shows us that costs increase, as defects are discovered later and later in the deployment process.  So start wrapping that case up with past experiences and the numbers to support it.  Enable the organization with hard facts about what it means to deliver poor performing products that don’t meet the functional requirements.  Don’t just pay lip service to the idea, make the case for it and we’ll all be better off.