{"id":486,"date":"2016-04-26T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oso.com.pl\/?p=486&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-04-26T07:22:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:22:46","slug":"the-volcano-of-software-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/?p=486&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Volcano of Software Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens\u00a0when you combine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountaingoatsoftware.com\/blog\/the-forgotten-layer-of-the-test-automation-pyramid\">the Test Automation Pyramid<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satisfice.com\/blog\/archives\/856\">Exploratory\u00a0Testing<\/a> concepts? You get\u00a0the <strong>Volcano of Software\u00a0Testing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oso.com.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VolcanoOfTests-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"487\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/?attachment_id=487\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VolcanoOfTests-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"611,518\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Volcano of Tests\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VolcanoOfTests-1.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-487 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/oso.com.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VolcanoOfTests-1.png\" alt=\"Volcano of Tests\" width=\"611\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VolcanoOfTests-1.png 611w, https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VolcanoOfTests-1-300x254.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The volcano represents the fact that both checking and exploration are part of the activity we call software testing.<\/p>\n<p>Note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The shape of the Test Automation Pyramid refers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontestautomation.com\/tag\/mike-cohn\/\">healthy test ratios and relative importance<\/a>. The &#8222;volcano ash&#8221; cloud follows that pattern:\n<ul>\n<li>It is on the top, as these tests are typically\u00a0relevant to the end user, can be relatively complex and costly.<\/li>\n<li>In my opinion they are key to achieving customer satisfaction, so the cloud is large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Using tools is not limited to automation. Manual testing\u00a0should be supported by <a href=\"http:\/\/oso.com.pl\/?tag=tools&amp;lang=en\">tools<\/a> when necessary.<\/li>\n<li>&#8222;Checking&#8221; can be both manual and automated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Send me your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qa-matters.com\/2014\/12\/28\/layers-of-test-automation\/\">Layers of Test Automation<\/a> &#8211; mentions\u00a0the trapezoidal pyramid!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/watirmelon.com\/2012\/01\/31\/introducing-the-software-testing-ice-cream-cone\/\">Introducing the software testing ice-cream cone (anti-pattern)<\/a> &#8211; hilarious and a bit sad at the same time, when you think your QA team may be actually in that position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens\u00a0when you combine the Test Automation Pyramid with Exploratory\u00a0Testing concepts? You get\u00a0the Volcano of Software\u00a0Testing: The volcano represents the fact that both checking and exploration are part of the activity we call software testing. Note: The shape of the Test Automation Pyramid refers to healthy test ratios and relative importance. The &#8222;volcano ash&#8221; cloud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/?p=486&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link\">Czytaj dalej<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201eThe Volcano of Software Testing\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[26,23],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-testing","tag-agile","tag-testing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p217OK-7Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oso.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}