Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 16 · Testing an application with no test framework
What breaks: the sign-off that proved nothing
Lesson 162 of 176 · 3 min
THREE DEMONSTRATIONS THAT PASS WITHOUT TELLING YOU ANYTHING: THE HAPPY PATH, A STUB THAT ALWAYS SUCCEEDS, and ONE LOCALE. Every one of these is a real test that was really performed and really passed, and none of them establishes anything — which makes them worse than no test, because they are recorded as evidence. THE HAPPY PATH IS THE ONE EVERY SIGN-OFF CONSISTS OF. Somebody demonstrates the screen: they open it, fill it in correctly, save, and it works. Which was already known, because that is the path built and re-run several hundred times — and it says nothing about data, failure, locale or keyboard. AND IT IS DEMONSTRATED WITH THE DEVELOPER'S OWN DATA, WHICH COMPOUNDS IT. Short names, every field populated, twenty rows — Lesson 2's point, and it means the happy path was also run on the friendliest possible input. THE STUB THAT ALWAYS SUCCEEDS IS WORSE, BECAUSE…
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In this module: Module 16 · Testing an application with no test framework
- 1What "tested" means hereFree preview
- 2Choosing data that would fail
- 3Testing without the other system
- 4Testing the failure paths
- 5Testing both locales
- 6Accessibility and keyboard
- 7What breaks: the sign-off that proved nothing
- 8Lab briefing · A test plan somebody would sign