1. Time: 11:30 – 12:15
Location: Room 3
Title: Misleading Validations: Be Aware of
Acceptance Criteria (en)
Presenter: Anand Ramdeo

2. MISLEADING
VALIDATIONS
Be
Aware
Of
Acceptance
Criteria
Anand
Ramdeo
@tes@nggeek

3. !

4. 1

7. Life
is
short,
art
long,
opportunity
flee4ng,
experience
treacherous,
judgement
difficult
Hippocrates
(460
–
400
BC)

10. Men
are
disturbed
not
by
things,
but
by
the
views
which
they
take
of
them.
Epictetus

18. Project
is
progressing
well
and
was
delivered
on
4me.
Customer
is
not
happy.
Project
is
progressing
well
and
was
delivered
on
4me,
however
customer
is
not
happy
because
upgraded
version
corrupted
their
exis4ng
data.

19. Tes4ng
–
Problem
Dopamine
–
Green
to
discover
is
good
Informa4on
to
theory
Confirma4on
bias
–
Sprint
=
tunnel
Don’t
ques4on
vision
theory
Narra4ve
fallacy
–
if
Working
system
something
does
aVer
every
commit-­‐
fail.
Lucid
Fallacy

22. NO
YES

24. Define
context?
What
do
you
mean
by
context?
How
this
principle
helps
me
on
–
every
single
day?
The
value
of
any
prac4ce
depends
on
its
context.
How
do
I
know
if
I
am
following
this
principle?
Can
I
consciously
check
if
I
am
following
this
principle?

25. What
do
we
get
by
rejec4ng
the
no4on
of
best
prac4ces?
If
an
approach
always
work
in
a
given
context,
does
it
not
become
best
prac4ce
in
that
context?
There
are
good
prac4ces
in
context,
but
there
are
no
best
prac4ces.
Does
it
not
make
it
easier
for
starter?
When
do
we
know
if
a
prac4ce
is
becoming
best
prac4ce
–
in
our
mind?

26. How
do
you
define
most
important?
What
do
you
mean
by
working
together?
People
working
together
are
the
most
important
part
of
any
project’s
context.
What
if
someone
is
not
a
good
team
member
and
s4ll
delivers
the
What
other
factors
are
most?
considered
in
branding
people
as
most
Are
they
important
important?
even
if
they
are
not
delivering?

27. So
what
–
what
does
it
tell
me?
How
does
this
principle
help
me?
How
do
we
plan
if
we
know
its
unpredictable?
Projects
unfold
over
4me
in
ways
that
are
oVen
not
predictable.
What
if
project
turns
How
do
I
know
if
I
am
out
to
be
predictable?
following
this
principle
or
not
following
this
principle?

28. Product
works
or
does
Product
usually
is
a
not
work
–
is
it
a
binary
collec4on
of
problems,
thing?
What
if
there
are
what
if
most
problems
workarounds?
are
solved
and
few
are
not
solved?
The
product
is
a
solu4on.
If
the
problem
is
not
solved,
product
doesn’t
work.
Is
it
important
to
find
a
problem?
How
does
it
help
in
my
tes4ng
ac4vi4es
–
during
planning
&
execu4on?

29. Does
it
have
to
be
challenging?
What
if
How
do
I
know
if
what
I
you
know
pa_ern
and
am
doing
is
intellectual
don’t
need
to
work
or
not
?
hard
to
find?
Good
soVware
tes4ng
is
a
challenging
intellectual
process.
What
happens
if
I
don’t
What
do
you
mean
by
find
it
challenging
or
intellectual
process
in
intellectually
engaging?
tes4ng?

30. Only
through
judgement
and
skill,
exercised
coopera4vely
throughout
the
en4re
project,
are
we
able
to
do
the
right
things
at
the
right
4mes
to
effec4vely
test
our
products.

31.
Given
That
4me
runs
out
or
par4cipants
are
bored
When
speakers
have
nothing
more
to
say
or
can
not
answer
Then
speaker
say
thank
you
for
your
4me
and
a_en4on.
Anand
Ramdeo
@tes4nggeek

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