beautiful testing

There is one more element to beautiful testing we need to consider: internal beauty.
What Beauty Is Internal?

When we describe something as beautiful, we mean that it has qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction. In this chapter, I write primarily about the latter, not the former. Yes, testing should provide pleasure. However, testing that pleases the tester may prove a superficial form of beauty, because it does not satisfy the stakeholders.
Beautiful Testing Satisfies Stakeholders

Why "beautiful testing", instead of "beauty testing" (which I understand as "testing of beauty")?
Thank you.

If you read the earlier chapters of the book at the link, the author is testing the idea of "beautiful". He is testing to see if something meets his criteria of "beautiful". He is testing to see if something can be described as "beautiful"; if it has that attribute.

I suspect the author has a lame idea and is pushing it by using an unusual construction to make it sound distinct, unique, his. (But then I'm cynical. 👁 Wink ;)
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PaulQ said:

If you read the earlier chapters of the book at the link,

I didn't👁 Smile :)
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Do I correctly understand that it would be more correct to use quotation marks: "beautiful" testing ?

Well... the author has made a conscious decision to use this form. He thinks that is what is required. He perhaps thinks that "beautiful testing" will move the reader's mind away from the idea of a "beauty contest". He wishes to introduce you to a new concept that he terms "beautiful testing".

I put the whole phrase in inverted commas as I don't like it and am showing my disapproval. However, the author thinks it's just fine... so he doesn't.

Thus the question of whether it is correct or not does not arise - he has coined a phrase and it is his and he can do with it what he wishes.

Thank you!

I worked in the field of software testing for a while - referring to such work as "beautiful" (no matter how thoughtfully or expertly done) strikes me as rather bizzare...

waltern said:

I worked in the field of software testing for a while - referring to such work as "beautiful" (no matter how thoughtfully or expertly done) strikes me as rather bizzare...

Did you read the link? 👁 Smile :)

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