In some organisations that have their own internal testing departments, they can suffer from a lack of awareness and sometimes understanding of testing. How do you communicate what testing is all about to the masses? An idea that was had some time ago, was to put posters up around the business, gentle reminders that the testers exist, memory joggers to get people thinking about testing. A trawl of the internet found various means of visually assisting and we thought we would share some of these with you.
This one has to be “Load Testing”. Can your systems cope with the expected load? A great photograph that makes me smile every time I see it.
This one has to be “Load Testing”. Can your systems cope with the expected load? A great photograph that makes me smile every time I see it. 
“Regression testing” stretches the mind a little but we came up with this. Do you understand the impact of change? Have you handled all of the ripples? 
On the subject of “Stress Testing”: At what point will it break? This one is very visual and in our opinion instantly understandable.
What we did find, was that different people had very different perceptions of what some images meant to them. It was very much a personal interpretation. Testing is still one of the least well known disciplines of the software development life-cycle and departments which are run in a service like manner, called upon when needed and not a “must have”, need to let organisations know of their existence, encourage thinking about testing and encourage engagement on projects.
Excellent pictures and they really bring home the point to the visually minded. Can I get these as posters to put up on the wall?
ReplyDeleteJames, glad you like the pictures. These images were used for a specific client in order to raise awareness of the team. I would suggest that images are sought from the stock photo sites on the net and images are found which work for your industry. If help is need to raise the profile of your team, we can offer consultancy services to assist.
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