Are You Driven?

Over the years, I've seen many cases where the suffix "-driven testing" is used to make an approach, technique or tool seem more interesting or important.

Here's a collection of such terms:

• Agent-driven testing
• Automated acceptance-driven testing
• Behavior-Driven Testing
• Bug-driven testing
• Business-driven testing
• Capability-driven Testing
• Checklist-driven testing
• Code-driven testing
• Community-driven testing
• Condition-driven testing
• Context-driven testing
• Container-driven testing
• Contract-driven testing
• Coverage-driven testing
• Customer-driven testing
• Data-driven testing
• Database-driven testing
• Deadline-driven testing
• Defect-driven testing
• Demand-driven testing
• Design-driven testing
• Economics-driven testing
• End user-driven testing
• Event-driven testing
• Example-driven testing
• Excel data-driven testing
• Experience-driven testing
• Failure-driven testing
• Feature-driven testing copyrightjoestrazzere
• Framework-driven testing
• Goal-driven testing
• GUI-driven testing
• Input/output driven testing
• Keyword-driven testing
• Logic-driven testing
• Menu-driven testing
• Metrics-driven testing
• Model-driven testing
• Modular-driven testing
• Modularity-driven testing
• Object-driven Testing
• Plan-driven Testing
• Phase-driven testing
• Priority-driven testing
• Purpose-driven testing
• Requirements-driven testing
• Result-driven testing
• Risk-driven testing
• Scenario-driven testing
• Script-driven testing
• Specification-driven testing
• Spreadsheet-driven testing
• Statistics-driven testing
• Story-driven testing
• Structure-driven testing
• Stupidity-driven testing (I think it was a joke...)
• Table-driven testing
• Test-driven testing (I think it was a typo, but perhaps not...)
• Type-driven testing
• Use case-driven testing
• User-driven testing
• Vulnerability-driven testing

I'm sure these terms are meaningful to some people, in some contexts.  But they mostly just make me laugh.  In many cases I think they result in little more than a difference without a distinction.

Know of any others you'd like to add to the list?

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My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing.