What's Comparable?
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The document discusses comparing software products using the FEW HICCUPPS oracle heuristics. It provides examples of what could be considered a "comparable product" for comparison, including other software products, attributes, features, functions, algorithms, outputs, patterns of behavior, and more. Even dissimilar products may have one point of similarity that could be useful. Comparisons should be made carefully and focus on aspects relevant to testing and meeting client needs.
What's Comparable?
- 1. Blogged By Michael Bolton based on (FEW) HICCUPS) by James Bach
- 3. We seek out Known Familiarities! which may close off our thinking about other possible interpretations! While Comparing two Products
- 4. That’s not a big problem in simple, stable systems It’s a bigger problem in software development
- 6. The Heuristics Test Strategy Model is a set of patterns for designing a test strategy.Project Environment Perceived Quality Testing Techniques
- 7. FEW Familiarity Explainability World HICCUPPS History Image Comparable Products Claims User Expectations Product Itself Purpose Statutes
- 8. What can be its Comparable products?
- 9. The Closest match in comparison is:
- 10. But what if…
- 11. You are asked to compare it with WC utility in Linux! Option Explanation -c Counts only characters -l Counts only the number of lines (newline delimited) -w Counts words only (defined as separated by a tab, space or newline) http://snap.nlc.dcccd.edu/learn/selena/wc.html
- 12. Let’s make it more interesting
- 13. Compared with Is it even possible?
- 14. It (Halo) blows people’s brains out…sometimes I want to do that with MS Word ;-) Halo is a game and does require interaction with a user From a UI perspective, there are menus and other forms of cause- and-effect type of interaction—that is, when I do X, I expect Y When I start a new game, save a game, reopen a game I have expectations about the state the game should be in I may also expect certain behavior with pausing or crashing the game in terms of recovery that could be compared to MS Word.
- 15. it can also mean “anything or any aspect of something that you might use as a basis for comparison“. “comparable” doesn’t necessarily mean “highly similar”;
- 16. “Comparable product”, in the context of the FEW HICCUPPS oracle heuristics, can mean: any software product, any attribute of a software product, or even attributes of non-software products that we could use as a basis for comparison
- 20. A Product that is member of the same suite of products!
- 21. Two Products that are Subcomponent within the same larger product
- 22. An existing product whose sole purpose is comparable to a specific feature in our product
- 23. An existing product that is different, yet shares some comparable feature, function, or concept.
- 24. A Chain of events in some product Function or Algorithm of Product 1 Sin(x) function in Open office Function or Algorithm of Product 2 API in Microsoft Excel
- 25. A product that we develop specifically to implement a comparable algorithm A Report or a Print Format built on Excel or an Algorithm in a utility Language Print Format or report used in an ERP
- 26. A reference output or artifact An output result on another medium of reference An output result on the compared product
- 27. A Product that we don’t Like!
- 28. Patterns of behaviour in a range or sphere of Products
- 30. Even when products are dissimilar in important respects, even one point of similarity may be useful.
- 34. Technology and Functional Aspects • User Interface • Business / Workplace Domain • Background Information • Culture • Aesthetic • Design Heuristics
- 35. Bugs thrive on overly narrow or overly broad interpretations of “comparable”. Know what you’re comparing, and why the comparison matters to your testing and to your clients.
- 36. Lets Discuss…