The only time management should need to take a lead in the matter
is if the staff cannot decide in a timely manner, or there is insufficient money for the tools.
Story
here was a man with a nail to whom everything looked like a hammer, and a little boy
with a hammer to whom everything looked like a nail. T
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The Big Questions You
Need Answers To
If you??™re thinking strategically you will start with Where You Are Now. Then you??™ll look at the Big
Questions. This section is structured to get you going with a set of Big Questions and the answers you
need to continue with. Each answer is further decomposed into pointers to other parts of the book.
2.1 Why Do We Test?
Testing enables us to answer questions about the software or the system as a whole, at least with some
level of confidence. One of the objectives of this book is to help you think in terms of the questions you
need to ask, which testing can answer. These questions concern the product, the users, the user??™s
Story: Hadrian??™s Wail
nce upon a time there was a British software house. It had a won a Command, Control,
and Communication project with a police force which lived in the shadow of Hadrian??™s
Wall. It was a big contract, bigger than anything the software house had ever done
before. But they had done lots of other C3 contracts before (well, three), and so this one wasn??™t
going to be any more difficult. So they wrote specifications, on paper, with pencils (makes them
easier to correct).
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