TODO

• Four Schools of Software Testing by Bret Pettichord, slides (pdf), from 2003, ~ 5 minutes (optional)

Analytical, Factory, Quality Assurance, Context-Driven

• Schools of software testing by Cem Kaner, blog post, from 2006, ~ 20 minutes (optional)

Factory school: emphasis on reduction of testing tasks to routines that can be automated or delegated to cheap labor.
Control school: emphasis on standards and processes that enforce or rely heavily on standards.
Test-driven school: emphasis on code-focused testing by programmers.
Analytical school: emphasis on analytical methods for assessing the quality of the software, including improvement of testability by improved precision of specifications and many types of modeling.
Context-drive school: emphasis on adapting to the circumstances under which the product is developed and used.

The four-schools (I prefer five-schools) approach provides one useful structure. (“All models are wrong; some models are useful.” — George Box)

• Five Schools of Software Testing by Bret Pettichord, slides (pdf), from 2007, ~ 5 minutes (recommended)

Analytic, Standard, Quality, Context-Driven, Agile

• Are Testing "Schools" a good idea? by Doug Hoffman and James Bach, video, from 2012, ~ 70 minutes (optional)

• Schools of Software Testing: Useful or Negative Influence? by Cem Kaner and Rex Black, blog post, from 2014, ~ 45 minutes (optional)

• QTE reading club 2021-10-13, ~ 60 minutes (optional)

• Wikimedia Engineering Productivity Team/Lunch and learn 2021-10-18, ~ 60 minutes (optional)

• Blog Post: Schools of Software Testing

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