I have designed corporate telco testing processes, I have taylored CMMI5 certified processes, I have studied at practiced context driven testing. Yet – the more I learn, the more it seems:
You can follow some of the processes all of the time,
and all of the processes some of the time
– but you cannot follow all the processes all of the time.
the processes are more what you’d call “guidelines”
Complexity is a Matter of Perspective 
Replace “process” with “procedure” and I agree 100%. For process, I’m not sure. If the statements above are true, aren’t they just bad, overelaborate processes?
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Would indeed work with “test script/procedure” too 😉
They key is to acknowledge that processes (simple and elaborate) have limits.
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