Prompted by
Simon Morley's blog post about showing your thinking, I thought I'd show my thinking on something one of his commenters mentioned - a
testing playbook.
Let's set the scene:I work (currently) in a scripted shop. Lots of procedural manual test scripts, wat…
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Added by Anna Baik on June 28, 2010 at 11:14pm —
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Saw an interesting blog post from someone in a new job
unsure how to react to a developer's comments. I'm curious to see how other people respond to the situation he presents. There are three comments so far, all with quite different approaches.
Perhaps because I've recently accepted a new job offer myself, I found myself focusing on the "new job" aspect of his post, more than…
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Added by Anna Baik on June 27, 2010 at 1:22am —
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Ok, I can't possibly be the only person on the STC going to
this, can I?
Maybe I am. Would be nice to meet up with folks if there is anyone else going though!
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Added by Anna Baik on March 5, 2010 at 11:52pm —
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Heads up on something interesting I saw just yesterday on twitter:
James Bach said: "
For testers: what is an alternative to test cases and procedures? Answer: a testing playbook."
Oh. What's that? I read on. And smacked my forehead. Go and read the discussion to see why. But to give some idea:
"…
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Added by Anna Baik on February 18, 2010 at 10:54pm —
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Wow.
We just wrapped up the first session of EWT01. What a great bunch of testers, that was such good fun. Many thanks to all participants, and of course to Ajay and Markus, my co-conspirators.
Keep an eye on
http://weekendtesting.com/ for more info about Weekend Testing! Remember you can sign up for Bangalore/Chennai/Hyderabad sessions too, I also attended WT21 this morning so it's been a Weekend Testing packed day...
I won't say any m…
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Added by Anna Baik on January 16, 2010 at 6:40pm —
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Hi folks,
You might have noticed various
posts and
tweets from
Markus and myself about
Weekend Testing lately. We're now looking to find a small number of keen testers to participate in the early sessions this January, for the new Europe chapter. Contact info below or leave a…
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Added by Anna Baik on January 5, 2010 at 3:42pm —
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There have been quite a few books published in the last few years that identify deliberate practice as an essential component of success. 'Outliers', 'Talent is Overrated', 'The Talent Code', and more. (Anyone got a link for that Mary Poppendieck talk on deliberate practice? That's good too.)
Deliberate practice, however, may not be straightforward to accomplish at work for many of us. (And that's assuming that you're currently working!). Even in economic good times, many companies don't value…
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Added by Anna Baik on January 5, 2010 at 1:34pm —
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Markus Gärtner has been writing a series of
posts about
learning and
software craftmanship recently. Well worth checking out.
I'm struck by his repeated use of swimming training as an analogy. It's interesting for me to read this, as my experience of learning to sw…
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Added by Anna Baik on December 27, 2009 at 4:30am —
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I've been thinking about
this post of Markus's recently, and about my own CS degree. It's about two and a half years since I graduated - though it took me about seven years to complete the degree, as I was working full time. My degree was a little different to the standard UK 3-year full-time on-campus BSc - for a start, I think it was the first degree course in the world resulting from a partnership between an employer,…
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Added by Anna Baik on December 22, 2009 at 7:30am —
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This was Thursday's keynote. I won't go into a long description of TMMi, as I think the links below will probably give more and better information than I can.
Erik started by emphasising that there's little purpose in pursuing TMMi if you don't have the fundamentals to support this - better to put your energy into pursuing those. Decent requirements and project planning, for example, without which it doesn't much matter how great your test plan is. You also need management support, and a proper…
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Added by Anna Baik on November 13, 2008 at 12:01pm —
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I haven't had a chance to update with any more blog posts until now, but I'm sitting here enjoying the EuroSTAR Testing Quiz and trying to write a blog post at the same time, so if it seems a bit scattered I apologise!
This was a workshop run by Michael Bolton. It's hard to convey a workshop as part of the point is being there, but I would recommend attending this if you get the opportunity. Michael spent the first part of the workshop discussing heuristics, and then ran an exercise with us whi…
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Added by Anna Baik on November 12, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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Just listened to a talk by Derk-Jan about exploratory testing (which I don't really know much about) and bringing these techniques into a more traditional structured environment.
What I didn't get an opportunity to ask was:
Can you *bootstrap* your team into using a more exploratory testing approach without needing in-house expertise? Or are you likely to have problems unless you have either a consultant or an already experienced exploratory tester on staff?
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Added by Anna Baik on November 11, 2008 at 3:32pm —
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Just preparing to head off to the Hague for the Eurostar 2008 Software Testing conference. If you were at the September SIGIST you might remember the draw for a free place to the conference - I was the winner! I wasn't sure if my employers would be able to stump up the travelling costs for me to attend, but they did. (Actually, getting there is costing less than going to London by train - this doesn't seem right, somehow).
Before SIGIST I'd never been to any kind of professional conference, so…
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Added by Anna Baik on November 10, 2008 at 10:23am —
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