AEIOU – The Vowel Model of Thinking for Pluralistic Testing

In continuation to my previous post in the series, which happened to be a fairly complex “undefinition” of a test, I will start the simplification and concept break down from this post.

Here’s a model that I developed many years back, although I never presented or wrote about it as a separate topic. During the course of writing this series, I’ve revised the model several times to accommodate new ideas.

The Vowel Model of Thinking for Testers, Who Value Pluralism

The above diagram is an elaboration of what happens at the core of My Quality Cage in the Infinity model of Imperfect Quality that had written about earlier.

I’m including that model here as well for your reference to connect some of the dots till I write my version of those dots:

The AEIOU model is a critical base for my future writings as I get into technical details of various techniques and types of testing.

That’s all for now. I’ll continue elaborating it in future posts.


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