{"id":47,"date":"2008-07-19T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satisfice.com\/kaner\/?p=43"},"modified":"2013-01-14T01:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T01:48:05","slug":"keynote-address-at-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Keynote address at CAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme at CAST was multidisciplinary approaches to testing. Tying my experience in psychological research, legal practice, and testing, I gave the keynote address:\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/kaner.com\/pdfs\/ValueOfChecklists.pdf\">The Value of Checklists and the Danger of Scripts: What Legal Training Suggests for Testers<\/a>. At its core, the talk says this:<\/p>\n<p>In the hands of professionals, checklists facilitate the exercise of judgment by the human professional. In contrast, scripts attempt to mechanize the task (whether a machine runs the test or a human being treated as a machine). Professionals often use checklists and, in my experience, rarely use scripts. When I went to law school, professors spoke often about reliance on script-like tools&#8211;in essence, they described them as paving stones on a fast highway to malpractice. My training and practice in psychology and law laid a foundation for my skepticism about linking scripting to &#8220;professionalism&#8221; in software testing.<\/p>\n<p>Checklists (of many kinds) are fine tools to help testers prepare for exploratory testing or to document their work. Scripts are fine tools for bug reporting (&#8220;do these things to get the failure&#8221;) and necessary tools for dealing with regulators who demand them, but as test planning tools, they are an anti-professional practice.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the overview, the talk provided several examples of different types of checklists, with thoughts on how to apply them to testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaner.com\/pdfs\/ValueOfChecklists.pdf\">https:\/\/kaner.com\/pdfs\/ValueOfChecklists.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme at CAST was multidisciplinary approaches to testing. Tying my experience in psychological research, legal practice, and testing, I gave the keynote address:\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The Value of Checklists and the Danger of Scripts: What Legal Training Suggests for Testers. At its core, the talk says this: In the hands of professionals, checklists facilitate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}