38: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC

RCRCRC was developed by Karen Nicole Johnson.

In this episode we discuss the mnemonic/heuristic and use it to prioritize tests for the cards application.

• Recent: new features, new areas of code
• Core: essential functions must continue to work, your products USPs (Unique Selling Propositions)
• Risk: some areas of an application pose more risk, perhaps areas important to customers but not used regularly by the development team.
• Configuration sensitive: code that’s dependent on environment settings or operating system specifics
• Repaired: tests to reproduce bugs, tests for functionality that has been recently repaired.
• Chronic: functionality that frequently breaks

Links:

• A heuristic for regression testing, by Karen Nicole Johnson
• @karennjohnson
• cards on github
• cards on Travis CI
• cards on AppVeyor