Summary

In this chapter, we talked about assembling test strategy into something cohesive that can explained, along with the advantages of having a real, coherent strategy. You should now be able to consider an organization, analyze it, say “Oh, I see what is going on here,” and summarize a test strategy easily – including the weaknesses.

The middle sections talked about a few particular ways to articulate that strategy, including the Lean Test Canvas, a census of risk, and a regression testing mind map. Those are not the only tools; in Chapter 9, we talked about Kanbans and low-tech testing dashboards, while Chapter 5 briefly touched on continuous integration tools. By now, you have had broad exposure to many possible ways to organize the testing work (including model-driven and customer-facing test tooling) to create a single, comprehensive vision, capped off by the dashboard we saw in Chapter 9.

At the end of the chapter, we mentioned improving the strategy...