Testing Is Activities, Not Artifacts

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The top half of the picture is Indiana Jones cracking his whip with the text "Testing is Activities". The bottom half is Indiana Jones staring at a gold statue with the text "Not Artifacts".

This is a phrase I've come to use a lot to describe my frustration with so much of the testing community's obsession with paperwork and test artifacts--test strategy documents, test plans, test cases, etc. or constantly referring to "test" only as a noun (e.g. "writing tests"), and far too little emphasis placed on actually _testing_, doing the work, exploring, and finding problems.

Senior Software Engineer in Test
Caleb has been developing and testing medical research devices for over 12 years, focusing on improving testing efforts at every stage of the design, development, and release process.
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