A study on Test Coaching in India

As I am exploring the options of coaching testers in organizations through workshops that exercise a testers mind (that includes me too), I had a learning that I value and I am sharing with you here.I never received any training as a tester in all the companies I have worked for but did train few people as an employee of a company. I have seen e-mails from the HR - Training, announcing coaching on programming languages...

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A test is an action which produces discoveries that can be used to evaluate product quality.

I like that this definition identifies action, discovery, and evaluation as being core to testing. However, I'm thinking of pushing, or rather constraining, this just a bit further. What if we were to say that the evaluation is the action and discovery is the goal? A test would then be the sapient part of validation or investigation -- the thinking and learning that cannot be automated. All those other things we do to...

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