If I were a testcase I would......

Daily Testing Tip has put out a challenge today. Its asking testers to complete the following phrase:

"If I were a testcase I would........." and to add the #dttip tag at the end. 

There have been some terrific responses such as:

@msdeibel: If I were a testcase I would fail randomly so ppl start investigating and exploring using brains

@michaelbolton: If I were a test case, I would ask "Why me? Why am I better than some other test case?" #dttip

and my personal favourite:

@rob_lambert: If I were a heavily scripted TC I'd draw on some legs, print myself out and run like the wind for a life of freedom and free thinking #dttip

We are going to collate all responses and publish them in an e-book which will be free to download. We are looking to raise money for the Chandru Fund through sponsorship of the book in return for strategic advertising.

How can you help?

We need your responses. Send in your twitter response to "If I was a testcase I would....." by adding the hashtag #dttip to the end.

If you don't have a twitter account, you can email me at dailytestingtip@gmail.com.

How can you help?
We are looking for sponsorship big and small. If you think your company may like to sponsor this book, get them to contact me directly at amcharrett@testingtimes.ie, we are offering attractive advertising packages.

So what are you waiting for? Get thinking and get writing. Its a bit of fun and your helping a worthy cause.

Sponsorship queries: amcharrett @ testingtimes.ie

Email responses: dailytestingtip @ gmail.com

And the winner is.....

The winning vote was:

Think testing as a challenge; it is not simply verification and validation of what is written and communicated in the starting

So congratulations to Vipul Gupta @vipsgupta for wining the vote.

Coming in a close second was:

Follow @dailytestingtip for some real good tips. 


contributed by Ajay Balamurugadas @ajay184f 

As you can see from the final count, there were many very popular tips and sometimes the one you think is going to win, just doesn't seem to get enough legs. Thats why I get to chose Editors Choice.

I've based Editors choice on a) my personal favorite :), b) the number of RT's it got and c) the number of votes it received. Based on these criteria, I am proud to announce:

Editors Choice 

Testing "Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back" proverbs http://bit.ly/bVRTKT

by Albert Gareev  http://twitter.com/AGareev

Again, congratulations to both winners. Both winner and Editor's choice will receive a copy of the first edition of The Testing Planet.

We got a total of 210 votes in, so a huge thank you to all endured the countless tweets to vote & eventually could resist no longer and voted for their personal favourite.


P.S Daily Testing Tip will be taking a break from polls. We are looking into alternative ways for people to express their favourite tip. 

Vote now! Most popular tip wins a prize

Wow, what a great response to the competition. Many thanks to everyone who sent in a software testing tip. Its your contributions that keep #dttip alive, so keep up the good work.

You can vote on three different tips. Remember the winner will win a first edition copy of the brand new Software Testing Newspaper, The Testing Planet, due out in July.

So get voting! Winner will be announced late Friday.




I think I have all the tips here. If you submitted a tip and its not there, let me know. I try and catch all the tips but the twitter feeds seem to be a bit unreliable.