In a job interview once, the candidate said to me
All software requires regression testing
and I said
All software requires regression testing?
(I didn’t think I could put stress on regression testing as well. It might have sounded like I was shouting.)
The candidate said – after a reasonably lengthy pause – simply
Yes.
When reporting something as apparently absolute, I want my testers to caveat, to contextualise, to define the scope of the statement
I’m saying X, so long as …
When presented with an unequivocal, absolute, universal statement, I want my testers to be thinking about the ramifications, to be testing it
You’re saying X, so what about …
Well, if I want to stay on the right side of Batman, I want them to do those things so far as it makes sense in their context.
So here’s a bit of seasonal fun: what scenarios can you think of where software doesn’t require regression testing? Be as creative as you like and stuff them into the comments.
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