TESTING - MY WAY TO HAPPINESS

BETTER SOFTWARE CONFERENCE

About Me: Jyothi Rangaiah

Director of Quality at

WhiteTable Technologies

Editor at

www.womentesters.com

Blogs at

http://chroniclesoftesting.blogspot.in

At Better Software Conference

http://bsceast.techwell.com/sme-profiles/jyothi-rangaiah

Agenda

Testers,

❖ Set the right expectation❖ Change Agents or Victims of Change?❖ Share your accomplishments

Testers

Why are we important to an organization?

Magic will happen

We are:

Scientists

Explorers

Researchers

Journalists

Testing - Perfect Software

End result of testing is not a perfect software.

Book referred to in this slide:

Perfect Software and other illusions about testing by Gerald M. Weinberg

Testing - Is An Easy Job

Testing is more than execution of tests and

bug reporting.

Testers

Change Agents or Victims of Change?

Test Early = Change Early

Test the requirements

Test the design

Test the code

What comprises of as testing time?

Learning

Testers - Self Reviewers

Everyone has their own testing approach, find your

approach.

Every other testing approach serves as a guide to assess

your approach.

Test ideas - Build it with the Fieldstone Method

"Don't write your book -- build it with Weinberg's Fieldstone Method. Keep the project moving by breaking the project into easy-to-attack chunks; gather your ideas one at a time. Then stack them as you would stones in a wall."

- Dan Poynter author of Writing Nonfiction and The Self-Publishing Manual

Mindmapping

Share

Befriend

Role play

Book referred to in this slide:Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method by Gerald M. Weinberg

Testing - Power of Open Source tools

Mindmap

A collection of open source tools to test web application.

Time for a game

CollaborateRules of the game

- Iteration 1- Iteration 2

Debrief

Testing Lessons

From Dr . Phil McGrawReference Link:

http://drphil.com/articles/article/44

You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.

There is no point in creating bugs and loads of them, that remain unattended.

Do what works best for you.

There is no standard way to experiment

with a software system.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

Software is not developed perfectly right at the first attempt.

But can be improved by subjecting it to continuous evaluation.

You create your own experience.

See a product. And see a reflection of your efforts.

Share your accomplishments

Do it now

Testing Etiquettes

To help testers - Stress less and accomplish more.

Hear. Don’t Listen.

Turn a deaf ear when required.

Too many noises around, tune to a frequency that does not stress you.

Be social. Be free.

Interact without attaching to any tags / roles / responsibilities played by an individual that you

interact with.

There is freedom in detachment and interactions become easy and a little less burdened.

Priority. A revelation.

Designer, Coder, Tester and the Client - If they all have different priorities for the same bug, then it is a clear indication that we all are not

aligned to the same expected result.

Testing Inspirations

Go teach yourself. Have fun.

You Inspire Me

❏ Fellow testers❏ Blogs and Books❏ Television Shows - Nat Geo Air

Crash Investigation, Watching Tennis❏ Social testing - testing to learn and

to gather test ideas❏ Test with your team - testing

together is inspiring and fun

Summarize❏ Testers, set the right expectations - Play fair and stay

true.

❏ Testers, as change agents - challenge the status quo and empower change for a better future for us testers.

❏ Testers, share your accomplishments - Lead the new way and enable greatness.

Image credits

http://5gratefulthings.tumblr.comwww.purposecapitalcleveland.orgwww.booktrust.org.ukwww.amazon.in

Credits: To respective owners of the image.

@aarjay

Thank you

Questions?Questions are the fuel on which the brain

runs.