Shift to the right side of your brain: Diversifying the ways you test Jan Jaap Cannegieter Vice President SYSQA B.V.
Shift to the right side of your brain - 6th World Congress on Software Quality, London 2014
Jun 27, 2015
Mastering one way of testing isn’t enough to be a professional tester nowadays. You need to have knowledge and experience with different ways of testing to test well in every situation. In the presentation Jan Jaap will present different ways of testing like global scripting, session based testing, bug hunts, test tours and pure exploratory testing. All have proven to be useful in agile projects.
In projects where different ways of testing are used drafting a test strategy is different compared to a project where only one way is used. Jan Jaap will explain how a test strategy is made in a project where different ways of testing are used. The things to take into consideration in an agile project will also be explained.
This talk gives you an insight in the different ways of testing you have to master to optimize your test effort.
Main Statement:
Scripted testing is for agile projects too rigid to be used in agile. Testers need to learn different ways of testing to be able to optimize the way of testing in an agile project.
Key Learnings:
Scripted testing, the way of testing most of us learned and used in the past, doesn’t work in agile projects. It’s too rigid
Professional testers need to master different ways of testing to be able to test well in an agile project.
The pros and cons of different ways of testing in agile projects.
In projects where different ways of testing are used drafting a test strategy is different compared to a project where only one way is used. Jan Jaap will explain how a test strategy is made in a project where different ways of testing are used. The things to take into consideration in an agile project will also be explained.
This talk gives you an insight in the different ways of testing you have to master to optimize your test effort.
Main Statement:
Scripted testing is for agile projects too rigid to be used in agile. Testers need to learn different ways of testing to be able to optimize the way of testing in an agile project.
Key Learnings:
Scripted testing, the way of testing most of us learned and used in the past, doesn’t work in agile projects. It’s too rigid
Professional testers need to master different ways of testing to be able to test well in an agile project.
The pros and cons of different ways of testing in agile projects.
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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
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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 [email protected]@jjcannegieter+31-627038827
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