ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some contradictory perspectives on testing. These form a type of dialectic that can generally be reconciled with an understanding of the meaning of each perspective and the value that these approaches bring to the testing team. Deleuze and Guattari defined rhizome approach in a seminal chapter entitled “Introduction: Rhizome” in their book A Thousand Plateaus. One obvious modern example of a rhizome structure is the Internet. Even though the “Internet” is an abstract concept, in practice it functions much like a rhizome, even to the deterritorializing and reterritorializing processes. A combination of inorganic and organic testing provides an ideal basis for an increasingly challenging test suite. The inorganic portion provides a starting point for the remainder of the test plan. The deterministic testing approach ignores meaningful sample sizes. Most test plans arise as inorganic structures based on standards.
