Cognitive Bias in Software Testing: Why Do Testers Miss Bugs?
Cognitive Bias in Software Testing: Have You been Influenced? The testing world is moving at a very quicker pace with technological advancements in order to ensure “quality at the speed of light”. “Continuous Integration, Digital transformation, life-cycle automation, shifting quality to the left to minimize costs” etc are some of the magical words that are swinging around. While we speak about these, the underlying question –“Why and how the defect was missed” still continues to be heard and remains unanswered as well. Cognitive Bias – A Brief Description As per Wikipedia – “A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own “subjective social reality” from their perception of the input. An individual’s construction of social reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the social world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, ...