EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2012 presentation on Test Innovation For Everyone by Alan Page. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/

1. Alan Page, Microsoft
Test Innovation for Everyone
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2. Innovation

3. Ideas

4. Test Innovation

5. Test Ideas

6. We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

7. Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas
Ideas

8. I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

9. The Adjacent Possible “The premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and recombine with other ideas”

11. “Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things”
- Lazarus Long (via Robert Heinlein)

19. If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original.
- Gary Panter

22. Component
Coverage
Fizz
70%
Buzz
62%
FizzBuzz
81%

23. Component
Tests
Fizz
a,b,d,e,f,g,y
Buzz
b,c,d,r,s,t
FizzBuzz
a,b,d,e,f,r,t,u,v,z

24. “We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”

27. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning - a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty

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