轻博文一：Passing Test Cases

Testing isnotabout making sure that test cases pass. It’s about usinganymeans to find problems that harm or annoypeople. Testing involves far more than checking to see that the program returns a functionally correct result from a calculation. Testing meansputting something to the test, investigating and learning about it through experimentation, interaction, and challenge. Yes, tools may help in important ways, but the point is to discover how the product serveshumanpurposes, and how it might miss the mark. So a skilled tester does not ask simply “Does this check pass or fail?” Instead, the skilled tester probes the product and asks a much more rich and fundamental question:Is there a problem here?

对于此观点，部分赞同，当测试时间充分或者测试用例质量不高时，测试人员的确可以做的更多，让产品质量更加透明，也更能突显一个人测试思维能力，测试用例外是不是可以发现更多的测试思路及测试探索点；部分不敢苟同，上面观点的主要原因是对测试用例质量的怀疑，当测试用例质量达到我们的要求后如果还有这个担心，那就应该继续反思测试用例质量；实际测试中我们会遇到测试时间不足但是技术支持以及项目经理甚至测试经理要求我们给出产品质量的一个评估，这个时候更能突显测试用例质量的重要性（CMMI）（暂不考虑测试组员能力和隐藏较深的测试点），这个场景是不是靠测试用例的是否通过来判断一个产品质量更靠谱一点呢？大家都知道测试成本，当平衡失调时还在过度测试探索是不是得不偿失呢？

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