Why bother testing?

In my previous blog post I wrote about the One Page Test Plan. At the end I openly said that I was using this format for my current project and it simply wasn’t working. So I spent some time evaluating to find a way forward.

I found a good question in a well known testing book that was “Why bother testing?”. I’ve found it a valuable question. It has made me think and articulate the concept of risk, how testing activities should be focused around risk and the overall value add of testing activities in a project. I can clearly explain to stakeholders on what exactly the plan is.

So when you next do your test planning have a go at answering the question, why bother testing?