https://smallsheds.garden/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:site@joep.slmail.me">Joep Schuurkes</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <img alt="Creative Commons BY-SA License" style="border-width:0;margin: 0px 0px 4px 0px;" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-sa/4.0/80x15.png" /> </a> Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:02:59 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/reflections-on-my-testing-manifesto/Joep Schuurkes<div><p>Earlier this month I published my <a href="https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/manifesto-for-software-testing/">Manifesto for software testing</a>. This manifesto is my attempt to bring together what I have learned about testing from the context-driven, agile and DevOps communities. Below you can find the manifesto with my reflections on it.</p> <h5>1. Testing is investigating in order to evaluate a product.</h5> <p>This definition is clearly influenced by James Bach's "questioning a product in order to evaluate it". I'm not sure at which point I started misremembering his definition as "investigating a product...", but it works well with a change I did make intentionally: moving "a product" to the second part of the definition. As explained in 6. I believe that in order to evaluate the product, we need to investigate a number of different things, not only the product.</p> <p><a href="https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/reflections-on-my-testing-manifesto/">Read more…</a> (5 min remaining to read)</p></div>agilecontext-driven testingdevopsmanifestosoftware testinghttps://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/reflections-on-my-testing-manifesto/Sat, 22 Dec 2018 16:43:10 GMThttps://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/manifesto-for-software-testing/Joep Schuurkes<div><p>1. Testing is investigating in order to evaluate a product.</p> <p>2. An evaluation is a judgement about quality – quality being value to persons who matter.</p> <p>3. This makes testing a fundamentally human and contextual activity.</p> <p>4. As such, testing is an exploratory and open-ended activity, requiring continuous evaluation of and experimentation with our practices.</p> <p><a href="https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/manifesto-for-software-testing/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>agilecontext-driven testingdevopsmanifestosoftware testinghttps://smallsheds.garden/blog/2018/manifesto-for-software-testing/Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:44:51 GMT