This document discusses how to bring more creativity and critical thinking to software testing. It notes that typical problems with testing like being boring, repetitive, or thoughtless can be addressed by automating routine tasks, differentiating infrastructure from user experience testing, focusing on testing strategy, and innovating new testing approaches like games. The document encourages testing teams to teach others, think critically about their work, and find ways to make testing more engaging and thoughtful.

1. How to bring creativity in testing
Jari Laakso
23.11.2011

2. FALSE Problems of Testing

3. FALSE Problems Of Testing
Boring

4. FALSE Problems Of Testing
Repetitive

5. FALSE Problems Of Testing
Unskilled

6. FALSE Problems Of Testing
Thoughtless

7. FALSE Problems Of Testing

8. CHANGE

9. Real Problems Of Testing
thinking
thinking
focus misinformation
focus misinformation
automation attitude
automation attitude

10. From problems to solutions

11. What To Do
• Automate what makes sense
• Differentiate infrastructure and UX code
• Learn to defend exploratory testing
• Print great bugs and stick them on the walls
• Gather to talk about improvements
• Before starting your work, think
• Innovate - make ”tours”

12. What To Do
• Use time in testing strategy
• Show examples
• Teach developers
• Advocate against bad ”metrics”
• Read a book and apply it in testing
• Ask ”why” and ”why not”
• Create testing games

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