3. Tutorials – May 7, 2012
Keynote from Michael Bolton:
"If It's Not Context-Driven, You
Can't Do It Here"
4. To test is to compose, edit, narrate, and justify
THREE stories.
A story about the status of the PRODUCT…
…about how it failed, and how it might fail...
…in ways that matter to your various clients.
A story about HOW YOU TESTED it…
…how you configured, operated and observed it…
…about what you haven’t tested, yet…
…and won’t test, at all…
A story about how GOOD that testing was…
…what the risks and costs of testing are…
…what made testing harder or slower…
…how testable (or not) the product is…
…what you need and what you recommend.
5. Tutorials – May 7, 2012
Tutorial/workshop from Rob Sabourin:
“Just-In-Time Testing”
6. Tutorials – May 7, 2012
“ALAP” activities - “ASAP” activities -
do as late as possible, as do now.
close to the actual testing as
possible.
Find test ideas
Test plans preparing
Prioritize test ideas
Test cases scripting
Test data preparing
...etc.
7. Testing Ideas
Collect all testing ideas you can find!
How to find them?
Does system do what it is suppose to do?
Does the system do things it is not supposed to?
How can the system break?
How does the system react to it’s environment?
What characteristics must the system have?
Why have similar systems failed?
How have previous projects failed?
9. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Keynote from Rob Sabourin:
"Applied Testing Lessons from Delivery
Room Labor Triage"
Philosophy: “Bug are not good or bad,
bugs have priority and severity and it is a
business decision how to prioritize.”
10. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Anders Dinsen
"Testing In The Black Swan
Domain"
Black Swan Idea/philosophy:
The term black swan derives
from a Latin expression - In
English "a rare bird in the
lands, very much like a black
swan". When the phrase was
coined, the black swan was
presumed not to exist.
11. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Rikard Edgren
“Curing Our Binary Disease”
Philosophy: Software testing is a
lot about computers. Most
software is made for people...
12. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Pass/Fail addiction
You feel good when starting a test with “Verify that…” and
ending with Pass or Fail
Pass/Fail rehab:
Look at some more places than what is stated in the Expected
Results field
Write the occasional test idea using the word "investigate"
You can ask richer questions than: Is this correct or not?
13. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Coverage obsession
A coverage model is useful to get ideas
Not useful as a metric of completion
A model can help you find important things, but a
percentage number might not include things that are
important
Information about the system is more important than
information about the model of the system (Emilsson)
14. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Louise Perold – “Tales from the financial testing trenches”
15. Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Anne-Marie Charrett – “Coaching Testers”
16. Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Keynote from Scott Barber:
“Testing Missions in Context From Checking to
Assessment”
17. Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Fiona Charles - "Strategies for a Successful Systems
Integration Test"
18. Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Huib Schoots - "So You Think You Can Test?"
Becoming a better tester:
1. Adapt to the context
2. Collaborate
3. Learn & practice
19. Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Keynote from Julian Harty:
"Open Sourcing Testing"
