Testing Strategy Applied
Our original outline ended with our discussion of words and language in Chapter 15. At one point, we discussed what the last chapters should be. The broader ideas for this chapter evolved as we wrote the book and asked, “What’s changed in the past year, and what is missing?” One of the prominent changes was the release of public large language models (LMMs), such as OpenAI. While knowledge of their practical application is limited, we felt remiss not to include them somehow.
Slowly, the structure of the chapter took form. We could apply the ideas in the book to two domains—a reference implementation of a test strategy for a mobile application or a critical examination of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in testing. By the end of the chapter, you should have a greater understanding of how we think about testing so that if someone asks you to develop a test strategy, you can walk through the process.
In this chapter, we...