The statistics are dismal. Even though magazines, newspapers, blogs, and even movies tell stories of successful entrepreneurs, most startups fail. Eric Ries was an entrepreneur with a history of startup failures under his belt. However, he learned many truths about managing startups and in 2011, he published The Lean Startup and revolutionized the way startups operate. Ries formulated the lean startup method, which has these cornerstones: Build-Measure-Learn loop, Minimum Viable Product, Validated Learning, Customer Development, and The One Metric that Matters. Lee Copeland has found lessons for testers in this lean startup approach. First, the minimum viable product suggests that we should consider a minimal set of tests, not striving for "completeness" at the beginning. This helps us implement the Build-Measure-Learn loop, which is similar to the Test Design-Test Execution-Learning loop of exploratory testing. The idea of customer development suggests that we should identify the different "customers" for our testing to determine what services they would actually like performed. Finally, the One Metric That Matters replaces the dozens of vanity metrics we gather now that don't really measure either the quality of our product or of our testing.
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机译：统计数字令人沮丧。即使杂志，报纸，博客甚至电影讲述成功企业家的故事，但大多数创业公司都失败了。埃里克·里斯（Eric Ries）是一位企业家，在他的带领下曾经历过创业失败的历史。但是，他学到了许多有关管理创业公司的真相，并在2011年出版了《精益创业公司》（Lean Startup），革新了创业公司的运营方式。 Ries制定了精益启动方法，该方法具有以下基石：Build-Measure-Learn循环，最低可行产品，经过验证的学习，客户开发以及一项重要指标。 Lee Copeland在这种精益启动方法中为测试人员提供了经验教训。首先，最低可行产品建议我们应该考虑进行最少的测试，而不是从一开始就争取“完整性”。这有助于我们实现“构建-测量-学习”循环，该循环类似于探索性测试的“测试设计-测试执行-学习”循环。客户开发的想法建议我们应该为测试确定不同的“客户”，以确定他们实际上希望执行哪些服务。最后，至关重要的一个指标取代了我们现在收集的数十个虚荣指标，这些指标并不能真正衡量我们产品或测试的质量。
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