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Beyond the UIBecoming a More Technical Tester
Erica Walker
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Move Beyond the UI
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1 Why We Should Become More Technical
2 Encouraging Technical Exploration
3 Steps to Get Started
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Why become more technical?
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A technical tester challenges software by going beyond the UI in a way
the typical user would not.Erica Walker, 2015
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Encourage Technical Exploration
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How (and when) to Ask for Help
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Be vulnerable, not expensive.
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When to Ask for Help
● AFTER speaking to the rubber duck
● AFTER checking the knowledge base
● AFTER searching your friend Google
Rubber ducking from Andrew Hunt & David Thomas, 2000 The Programatic Programmer
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● Be good to work with
○ Bring “what you know” with you○ Use the correct medium
● Find someone who is willing and able
● Keep trying
How to Ask for Help
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“Social capital refers to the collective value of all "social networks" [who people know] and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other ["norms of reciprocity"].”
Saguaro Seminar at the Harvard Kennedy School
Social Capital
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“[Helpfulness is] absolutely core to successful teams, and it routinely outperforms individual intelligence. Helpfulness means I don't have to know everything, I just have to work among people who are good at getting and giving help.”
Margaret Heffernan, 2015 TED Talk: Why it’s Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work
Social Capital
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The idea that you lack the ability and the right to be where you are, and that someone will humiliate you by exposing your shortcomings. It is believing that you alone are less than able, and are surrounded by others who are far superior.
Stephen D. Brookfield, 2006The Skillful Teacher
Impostorship
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Talk Time
● What makes you interesting?
● What do you like to share about testing?
● What baffles you about testing?
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Talk Time
● What makes you interesting?○ Love to play ukuleles
● What do you like to share about testing?○ Power of social capital
● What baffles you about testing?○ Automation "checking"
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Steps to Get Started
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1 Console/Debugger: Devtools, Chrome
2 APIs: PostMAN
3 DB: SQL Fiddle
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1 Console/Debugger: Devtools, Chrome
2 APIs: PostMAN
3 DB: SQL Fiddle
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1 Console/Debugger: Devtools, Chrome
2 APIs: PostMAN
3 DB: SQL Fiddle
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1 Console/Debugger: Devtools, Chrome
2 APIs: PostMAN
3 DB: SQL Fiddle
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DB: SQL
SELECT * from TableName
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DB: SQL
SELECT FirstName, LastName, FavoriteFood from TableName
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DB: SQL
SELECT * from TableName WHERE Born = ‘Mississippi’
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1 Why We Should Become More Technical
2 Encouraging Technical Exploration
3 Steps to Get Started
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Move Beyond the UI
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Handout at http://tinyurl.com/Erica-CAST2015
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