Have you ever worked on a project where you felt testing was thorough and complete—all features were covered and all tests passed—yet during the first week of production use, the software had serious issues and problems? Commonly, usability, performance, and robustness issues are among those key areas that are not targeted by requirements and often missed in testing.
Join Dawn Haynes to explore how to more effectively inject robustness testing into your projects to uncover those issues before release. Dawn shows you how—by expanding basic tests and incorporating specific robustness attacks—you can catch many defects that are commonly written, commonly missed, and tend to show up early in production. Dawn also proposes strategies for making robustness risks a project-level concern so these common issues get the priority they deserve and are evaluated before release.
Please bring a laptop with an application you wish to target for testing already set up and configured. Plan to do some exploratory testing and look for opportunities to “attack” your software during the session, as well as attempt a number of attacks from James Whittaker’s book, How to Break Software.
Previous attendees of this workshop have found many valuable bugs to report to their team during the session, and gained valuable insights to raise robustness awareness within their projects. What will you catch at CAST 2018, beachside in Florida?
