agile2016: (lightning talk) breaking illusions
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Breaking Illusions
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
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Exploratory testing is a systematic approach for discovering risks using
rigorous analysis techniques coupled with testing heuristics.
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Testers don’t break the code, they break your illusions about
the code. - Adapted from James Bach
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From Experiments to Empirical Evidence
Testing is about information for people who matter
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Illusion type I: Code doing what it’s supposed to.
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Illusion type II: Product doing what it would
need to.
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Illusion type III: Process being able
to deliver with change in mind.
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Illusion type IV: People having
skills to deliver well.
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Illusion type V: Business model
driving the selection of right
focus.
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Illusions Need to be Broken
Encourage your testers out of the functional box they put themselves in (with your
guidance).
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Continuous Delivery without Test Automation
exists.
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The value of another’s experience is to give us
hope, not to tell us how or whether to proceed
- Peter Block
Experience Reports over Definitions or Methods
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Maaret Pyhäjärvi Email: [email protected] Twitter: @maaretp Web: maaretp.com Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi (please connect with me through Twitter or LinkedIn)