Stories from a Software Tester

It’s become tradition — with a bit of dogma — to point to triangles and quadrants to “explain” things about testing and development. A good case in point is presented in the article Agile Testing Automation. My goal is not to critique the article but rather to use it to highlight what I see as some of the problem. So let’s subject tradition to some rational inquiry and let’s subject dogma to a bit of scrutiny.

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In previous posts about the integration / integrated distinction (see part 1 and part 2 of that series), I talked about how there is in fact a distinction and provided a little rationale behind why this distinction currently matters. So now let’s talk a little “around” the concept of integration — not integrated — and see where this takes us.

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In the previous post in this series, I talked about the counterargument of there being no distinction between integration and integrated. That post ended on a question. In this post, I will start from the presumption that there is a distinction between the terms and explore that a bit.

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Here I’ll talk about the difference between the terms integration and integrated when applied to testing. You may read that and say “Um, there is no difference, is there?” Well, let’s talk about it.

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