Shift to the right side of your brain - 6th World Congress on Software Quality, London 2014

Shift to the right side of your brain: Diversifying the ways you test

Jan Jaap CannegieterVice President SYSQA B.V.

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Different ways of testing

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Scripted testing Exploratory testing

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Different ways of testing

Scripted testing

Exploratory testing

Detailed scripting

Global scripting

Session based testing

Bug hunts

Test tours

Pure exploratory

testing

Based on‘Telling your exploratory story’ by Jon Bach, Agile 2010 conference

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Situational testing

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Focussed on actionFlexible

PragmaticRely on the tester

Focussed on test execution

Focussed on preparationFocussed on planningRely on the methodConfidence in the processFocussed on documentation

Exploratory testing

Detailed scripting

Global scripting

Session based testing

Bug hunts

Test tours

Pure exploratory

testing

Download the ebook from http://www.sysqa.nl/publicatie/ebook-situational-testing-english/

Scripted testing

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Choose your way of testing

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Organi-zation

Test goals

System

Test skills

Develop-ment

method

Documen-tation

Situation

Situational testing, creativity and our brain

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Imagination, freedom, creative, intuition Scripted testing

Analytic, accurate, logic, strategic

Plotting the brains

Exploratory testing

Detailed scripting

Global scripting

Session based testing

Bug hunts

Test tours

Pure exploratory

testing

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Statement:We select and train our tester

only in the left-side competences.

To diversify the way we test we should train the right side of our brain.

So, the question is, how do we make testers more creative?

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Summary

1. Be born that way2. Perspective based testing / emphasizing3. Take away boundaries4. Offer flexibility5. Encourage the use of feeling (body thinking)6. Bring him/her in the position7. Brainstorm8. Encourage observe and imagine9. Encourage criticism / questioning10. Train your brains11. Play (games, painting, acting)12. Use visualization techniques

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Further reading

• Stuart Brown: Play. How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown

• Ted talk about Play by Stuart Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VltmSJVMxOs

• Robert S. Root-Bernstein & Michele M. Root-Bernstein: Sparks of genius. The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People

• Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow• Google on ‘How to become more creative’

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And of course: use different ways of testing

Scripted testing

Exploratory testing

Detailed scripting

Global scripting

Session based testing

Bug hunts

Test tours

Pure exploratory

testing

Based on‘Telling your exploratory story’ by Jon Bach, Agile 2010 conference

Download the ebook from http://www.sysqa.nl/publicatie/ebook-situational-testing-english/

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Thank you for your attention and I hope

to see you soon!

Jan Jaap CannegieterVice President SYSQA B.V.jcannegieter@sysqa.nl@jjcannegieter+31-627038827