Amplify your awesomeness
with testing

Ulrika Malmgren
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Testing increases quality
Myth:
You don't test quality in
- you need to build it in

+ testing =

+165 bugs in Jira

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"A metric is only as valuable as the value of the decision it informs" - someone
testing = information
Think about quality while you develop

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programmers can't test their own code

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Myth:
Testing

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Calculator

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CHECK
- predictable
- objective
- one answer
- discrete
- verify

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Text

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EXPLORE
- no expected answer
- subjective
- learn
- investigate
- model

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CHECK - EXPLORE
http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/856
James Bach and Michael Bolton

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TESTED = CHECKED + EXPLORED
Elisabeth Hendrickson

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Movie time
Find your moonwalking bears!

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Tester's work begins when the code is written
Myth:

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3 perspectives to quality
- communication
- ways of working
- techniques

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user story map
illustrated scenarios
Mind map


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Use mind maps to explore new functionality together.
Draw on your different perspectives to find new information and potential problems.
(or do it alone!)

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Be different!
- always

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Randomize

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https://github.com/gojko/bugmagnet
Use checklists
http://testobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/testheuristicscheatsheetv1.pdf
San Francisco DePOT

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San Francisco DePOT
Heuristic (/hjʉˈrɪstɨk/; Greek: "Εὑρίσκω", "find" or "discover") refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal, but good enough for a given set of goals.

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San Francisco DePOT

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San Francisco DePOT


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SFDPOT


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SFDPOT


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SDPOT


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SFDPOT


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SFDPOT


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SFDPOT


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Focus

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Build quality in
Tested = checked + explored
Find the bears

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Väg 74 - Avsnitt 15
http://agical.se/pod/
Blogg - https://natooktesting.wordpress.com/
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Thank you!
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By Ulrika Malmgren
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Presentation @ Swetugg 2016. Amplify your awesomeness with testing
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