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Let's Test Context-Driven Software Testing Conference Stockholm
Sweden
A European conference on context-driven testing for testers by testers.
Why Let's Test?
Context-driven conference
Famous speakers
The venue
Tutorials May 7, 2012
Keynote from Michael Bolton:"If It's Not Context-Driven, You Can't Do It Here"
To test is to compose, edit, narrate, and justify THREE stories.
A story about the status of the PRODUCTabout how it failed, and how it might fail...in ways that matter to your various clients.A story about HOW YOU TESTED ithow you configured, operated and observed itabout what you havent tested, yetand wont test, at allA story about how GOOD that testing waswhat the risks and costs of testing arewhat made testing harder or slowerhow testable (or not) the product iswhat you need and what you recommend.
Tutorials May 7, 2012
Tutorial/workshop from Rob Sabourin: Just-In-Time Testing
ASAP activities - do now.
Find test ideas
Prioritize test ideas
ALAP activities - do as late as possible, as close to the actual testing as possible. Test plans preparing
Test cases scripting
Test data preparing
...etc.
Tutorials May 7, 2012
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 its environment?
What characteristics must the system have?
Why have similar systems failed?
How have previous projects failed?
Test Idea Sources
Capabilities
Failure Modes
Quality Factors
Usage Scenarios
Creative Ideas
States
Data
Environments
White Box
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.
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.
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...
Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Pass/Fail addictionYou 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?
Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Coverage obsessionA coverage model is useful to get ideasNot 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)
Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Louise Perold Tales from the financial testing trenches
Conference Day 1 - May 8, 2012
Anne-Marie Charrett Coaching Testers
Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Keynote from Scott Barber:Testing Missions in Context From Checking to Assessment
Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Fiona Charles - "Strategies for a Successful Systems Integration Test"
Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Huib Schoots - "So You Think You Can Test?"
Becoming a better tester:1. Adapt to the context2. Collaborate3. Learn & practice
Conference Day 2 - May 9, 2012
Keynote from Julian Harty: "Open Sourcing Testing"
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