Comments on: Repetition begets skill…however http://www.testjutsu.com/repetition-begets-skillhowever Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Chris B. http://www.testjutsu.com/repetition-begets-skillhowever/comment-page-1#comment-45 Chris B. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:17:15 +0000 http://www.testjutsu.com/repetition-begets-skillhowever#comment-45 "...they now face a situation where the application of their techniques may or may not work and it is up to them to work out why." I can definitely see the parallels to testers hacking away and not understanding why they aren't learning anything about the software under test :) The step of working out why a test technique didn't work, reformulating your approach, and trying again is rare except in the best testers. As you say, I think there is a lot of repetition in testing, but not as much skill building as there could be. “…they now face a situation where the application of their techniques may or may not work and it is up to them to work out why.”

I can definitely see the parallels to testers hacking away and not understanding why they aren’t learning anything about the software under test :)

The step of working out why a test technique didn’t work, reformulating your approach, and trying again is rare except in the best testers.

As you say, I think there is a lot of repetition in testing, but not as much skill building as there could be.

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