The Recipe to Success

Latest Whitepapers | Resource Centre | February 8, 2011

By Leanne Howard
Account Director, Planit Software Testing

ABSTRACT: This paper compares the similarities between following the Test Process for software development and following a recipe for baking a cake. Advice is offered in regards to choosing recipes, gathering ingredients and using tools to assist in creating a product that meets the standards of the recipe.

I love cooking in my spare time. As I was baking a lovely chocolate cake over the weekend I found that I was comparing the recipe to a Test Process. By making something challenging seem like an everyday activity (at least for me) I hope this paper helps with your understanding. Maybe you will be able to bake a cake next weekend too!

Choose your recipe / framework
Well where to start? That’s easy we have a recipe and often a picture to see what the end product should look like. OK, maybe not that easy, you may not have a picture and find it difficult to visualise, or now you see that beautiful cake and feel a bit intimidated. I have got an answer for both. First, the fact that you may not have a picture, don’t let that stop you. This takes a bit of preparation upfront as if you decide to bake and have not done your research you may be stuck without that picture. But if you’ve thought about it
beforehand you have a number of options. Try another of your recipe books, they may have one or at least one similar. Talk to your friends, they may have one you can borrow or failing that, look it up on the Internet, there are hundreds of examples there to help…

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