Acquisition Archetypes: Happy Path Testing

October 15, 2009 • White Paper

By

Linda Levine and William E. Novak

When time and budget are tight, it's tempting to follow the "happy path" in testing. But be careful: it may be a path that brings your program great unhappiness.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Acquisition

Abstract

When time and budget are tight, it's tempting to follow the "happy path" in testing. But be careful: it may be a path that brings your program great unhappiness.

From the Acquisition Support Program, one in a series of short papers on acquisition patterns of failure.