'What is this Exploratory Testing Thing?' presentation given at Agile Tour London 2014

Explaining testing: Quick win, small change

I didn't include testing because it's a quick win, it's only a small change.

What Do Testers Do presentation - #rtc2014

This is my 'What Do Testers Do' presentation given at the Romanian Testing Conference 2014.


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• Exploratory Testing
  • Ministry of Testing ET Resources
  • Ministry of Testing Session Based Test Management Resources
  • 10 Ways To Do Exploratory Testing Badly
• Security Testing
  • OWASP Testing Guide
  • Low Hanging Fruit
  • Ministry of Testing Security Testing
• Tools
  • Fiddler
  • ZAProxy
  • Burp Suite
  • Charles
  • Firebug
  • Ministry of Testing Tools List
  • YSlow
  • AutoIt
  • Jmeter
• Ideas
  • 36 Days of Web Testing
  • Technical Web Testing 101
  • You Are Not Done Yet
  • The Little Black Book On Test Design
  • Software Quality Characteristics 1.1
  • Alternative Uses for Fiddler
  • 37 Sources for Test Ideas 1.0
  • Software Quality Characteristics Poster
  • Introduction to Test Strategy
  • Exploratory Test Design
  • What does a technical exploratory test session look like?
  • 77 Test Idea Triggers
  • How to chain HTTP Debug Proxies
  • No time left at the end of the sprint for proper testing
  • Onion Patch Strategy
  • 101 tactics for revolutionaries
• Automation
  • Models of Automation
    
  • Throw it Away
  • Selenium Simplified
  • Selenium HQ
  • Webdriver Google Group
  • Selenium Users Google Group
  • Junit
• Humour

• • Software Tester Reactions
  • DevOps Reactions
  • Cartoon Tester
  • Explaining Testing
  • QA Hates You
• Books
  • Ministry of Testing Ebooks List 
• Accessibility
  • Web Accessibility Testing Heuristics 
    
• Cheat Sheets
  • XPath, CSS, DOM and Selenium: The Rosetta Stone

• • Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet Data Type Attacks
  • Web Test Heuristics
  • Selenium 2 WebDriver Java API Cheat Sheets
• Responsive
  • Responsive Web Design Testing 10-Tools You Need to Know

Explaining testing: 'We've been working on this for 2 years and thought it was time for some testing'

Explaining testing: It's a small change, it doesn't need testing

Explaining testing: Estimates

 http://www.dilbert.com/2013-08-31/

                              

Explaining testing: Targeting a potential issue.

Explaining testing: Context

 

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-06-30

Explaining testing: 6 months of coding before talking to testers then 1 week to test 'everything'.

Explaining testing: New test ideas 2

Explaining testing: New test ideas

Explaining testing: See and Observe 2

Oxford Dictionary definitions of See and of Observe.

 

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/see?q=see

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/observe?q=observe

This is a screen shot from "The Last Stand". What do you see? What do you observe?

BTW, stay away from this movie unless you hate yourself.

Explaining testing: Test scripts

Excerpt from: Alan Richardson – What Made You a Leader?

I mean, and this is just one example, they wanted me to write down all the steps I was going to take before I had ever done them. Insane. And when the obvious thing happened i.e. we couldn’t do what we had written because the system didn’t quite work the way we thought it had, they were surprised. But we didn’t learn, instead we amended all the scripts, then started again, and again, and again. Because that was the ‘way testing was done’.

Explaining testing: Enforced mandatory for all situations best practices

Borrowed from Infosec Reactions

Explaining testing: 101 Tactics For Revolutionaries

Here are the first 10 to get you started.

Onward to glory!

1. if you’re in charge, do it yourself
2. if you’re not in charge, do it yourself
3. become known as “the guy who…” so when the time is right, everyone knows there’s a guy who…
4. learn to be nice, so people like you
5. realise there are no rules, you can do what you like
6. know that you are as right as you can be for now given what you’ve learnt so far
7. know that this is the same for everybody else
8. stay on the inside of the wrong thing so you can speak with authority on why and how it is wrong
9. know it’s not a race. That you can divide the world into those ahead of you and those behind, and to all those ahead of you, you’re the one behind.
10. be an entrepreneur not a crusader

The rest are here: 101 Tactics For Revolutionaries

Explaining testing: Explain to anyone

These should get you started

Explaining Testing to Them

Explaining Testing to anybody

Misconceptions about testing 

Open Letter to Eurostar organizers - testing introduction

Q: What is Testing? A: look inside…

Explaining testing: Gaining wisdom

Explaining tesing: Curiosity

Explaining testing: Being silly

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