Stories help us learn. They can be fun or scary, exciting or relaxing. People worldwide tell and listen to stories, and we access them through books, film, TV, and IT. But the direct experience of face-to-face storytelling is still a powerful experience. When Isabel Evans was young, there was a program on the radio called Listen with Mother. For fifteen minutes, mothers and children across the country would sit and listen to a story. Join Isabel and become your inner child. Bring your testing parent and listen to her stories. In fifteen-minute sections, Isabel recounts stories drawn from myths, legends, and fairy tales to provide you with pleasure, entertainment, and lessons for life. All have lessons that relate to the conference and to your testing work. Come and listen, be delighted, surprised, and perhaps shocked—but entertained and educated. Learn new ways to interpret your work situation and take home old wisdoms.

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9:45
Story
Time
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Testers
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2. Isabel
Evans
Independent
Consultant
Independent
quality
and
testing
consultant
Isabel
Evans
has
more
than
thirty
years
of
IT
experience
in
quality
management
and
testing
in
the
financial,
communications,
and
software
sectors.
Her
quality
management
work
focuses
on
encouraging
IT
teams
and
customers
to
work
together
via
flexible
processes
designed
and
tailored
by
the
teams
that
use
them.
Isabel
authored
Achieving
Software
Quality
Through
Teamwork
and
chapters
in
Agile
Testing:
How
to
Succeed
in
an
eXtreme
Testing
Environment;
The
Testing
Practitioner;
and
Foundations
of
Software
Testing.
A
popular
speaker
at
software
conferences
worldwide,
Isabel
is
a
Chartered
IT
Professional
and
Fellow
of
the
British
Computer
Society,
and
has
been
a
member
of
software
industry
improvement
working
groups.

3. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Story Time for Testers
Isabel Evans fbcs citp
ie@isabelevans.uk
www.isabelevans.uk

4. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
I’m going to tell you some stories

5. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Brevity is good…
How much I desire!
Inside my little satchel,
the moon, and flowers!
Basho

6. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Computer Haiku
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

7. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Testing Haiku…?
Simple tests are passing
But important tests failed!
Fix, test, then release.
Environment down?
Another day wasted when
We could have tested.
Explore and test the system.
Calm mind, systematic work,
Tell good and bad news.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Configuration error?

8. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Now you…

9. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Sonnet
• A dialectical construct which allows the poet to examine the nature and
ramifications of two usually contrastive ideas, emotions,
states of mind, beliefs, actions, events, images, etc., by juxtaposing the
two against each other, and possibly resolving or revealing
the tensionscreated and operative between the two.
• The English sonnet has the simplest and most flexible pattern of all
sonnets, consisting of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet:
a b a b
c d c d
e f e f
g ghttp://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm

10. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Sonnets XLIX (Shakespeare)
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call’d to that audit by advis’d respects;
Against that time when thou shall strangely pass,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand against myself uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws
Since why to love I can allege no cause
A
B
A
B
C
D
C
D
E
F
E
F
G
G

11. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Sonnets 1 – fill the gaps…
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall I see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Call’d to that audit by advis’d respects;
Against that time when thou shall strangely pass,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand against myself uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws
Since why to love I can allege no cause.
A
B
A
B
C
D
C
D
E
F
E
F
G
G

12. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Sonnets 1 – fill the gaps…
Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall I see some acceptance of my defects,
When as thy code doth work, and calcs do sum
Call’d to that audit by QA and a fix ;
Against that time when tests shall strangely pass,
And scarce delay the team’s progress
When data, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find to delight and not depress;
Against that time do I continue work
Within the knowledge of my teammates ire,
And this my report against myself do make,
To ward off the manager’s awful mood so dire:
To leave quality poor thou hast the choice of laws
Since now to bugs I can allege no cause.
A
B
A
B
C
D
C
D
E
F
E
F
G
G

13. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Now you…

14. Be happy - do good - leave the world a better place than you found it
Isabel
Evans
Story Time for Testers
Isabel Evans fbcs citp
ie@isabelevans.uk
www.isabelevans.uk