Use right side of your brain - Agile Testing Days 2014 Potsdam

FLEXIBLE TESTING AND USING THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN

Jan Jaap CannegieterVice President SYSQA B.V.

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Which way is she turning?

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Agenda

• Testing in a changing world• Flexibilize testing and the need to develop our

brain• How to develop your brain

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Testing in a changing world

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General changes

• Further process automation• High tech outsourcing• Corporate agility• Increased importance of marketing and sales

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Based on ‘A whole new mind’ by Daniel H. Pink and‘Corporate agility’ by Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware and Cory Williamson

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General changes…and what it means for testing

• Further process automation• Can we automate this test?

• High tech outsourcing• Can someone with a low fee test this?

• Corporate agility• Agility in testing

• Increased importance of marketing and sales• Test whether this product is marketable/salable/usable

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Situational testing: different ways of testing

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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, 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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What about the dancer?

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How to stimulate and train the right side of your brain

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Summary

1. Take away boundaries2. Encourage flexibility3. Trust your feelings (body thinking)4. Bring him/her in the position5. Brainstorm6. Use your imagination7. Perspective based testing / emphasizing8. Encourage questioning / criticism 9. Train your brains10. Play (games, painting, acting)11. Use visualization techniques12. Don’t tell yourself you can’t

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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• Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind • Google on ‘How to become more creative’

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1. We will have to master different ways of testing2. Different ways of testing require different skills, e.g. more creativity3. We have to train us in these skills

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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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Daniel H. Pink

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“Right-brainers will rule the future”

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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