Slides from my talk at Better Software Conference

1. TESTING - MY WAY TO
HAPPINESS
BETTER SOFTWARE CONFERENCE

2. About Me:
Jyothi Rangaiah
Director of Quality at
WhiteTable Technologies
Editor at
www.womentesters.com
Blogs at
http://chroniclesoftesting.blogspot.in
At Better Software Conference
http://bsceast.techwell.com/sme-profiles/jyothi-rangaiah

3. Agenda
Testers,
❖ Set the right expectation
❖ Change Agents or Victims of Change?
❖ Share your accomplishments

4. Testers
Why are we important to an organization?

5. Magic will happen
We are:
Scientists
Explorers
Researchers
Journalists

6. Testing - Perfect Software
End result of testing is not a
perfect software.
Book referred to in this slide:
Perfect Software and other illusions about testing by
Gerald M. Weinberg

7. Testing - Is An Easy Job
Testing is more than
execution of tests and
bug reporting.

8. Testers
Change Agents or Victims of
Change?

9. Test Early = Change Early
Test the requirements
Test the design
Test the code

10. What comprises of as testing
time?

16. Learning

17. Testers - Self Reviewers
Everyone has their own
testing approach, find your
approach.
Every other testing approach
serves as a guide to assess
your approach.

18. "Don't write your book -- build it with Weinberg's
Fieldstone Method. Keep the project moving
by breaking the project into easy-to-attack
chunks; gather your ideas one at a time. Then
stack them as you would stones in a wall."
- Dan Poynter author of Writing Nonfiction and
The Self-Publishing Manual
Mindmapping
Share
Befriend
Role play
Book referred to in this slide:
Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method by Gerald M. Weinberg

19. Testing - Power of Open Source
tools
Mindmap
A collection of open source tools to test web application.

22. Time for a
game

23. Collaborate
Rules of the game
- Iteration 1
- Iteration 2
Debrief

24. Testing
Lessons
From Dr . Phil McGraw
Reference Link:
http://drphil.com/articles/article/44

25. You cannot change what you do not
acknowledge.
There is no point in
creating bugs and
loads of them, that
remain unattended.

26. Do what works best for you.
There is no standard
way to experiment
with a software
system.

27. Life is managed; it is not cured.
Software is not developed perfectly right at the
first attempt.
But can be improved by subjecting it to
continuous evaluation.

28. You create your own experience.
See a product. And see a reflection of your
efforts.

29. Share your
accomplishments
Do it now

31. Testing
Etiquettes
To help testers - Stress
less and accomplish
more.

32. Hear. Don’t Listen.
Turn a deaf ear when required.
Too many noises around, tune to a frequency that
does not stress you.

33. Be social. Be free.
Interact without attaching to any tags / roles /
responsibilities played by an individual that you
interact with.
There is freedom in detachment and interactions
become easy and a little less burdened.

34. Priority. A revelation.
Designer, Coder, Tester and the Client - If they
all have different priorities for the same bug,
then it is a clear indication that we all are not
aligned to the same expected result.

35. Testing
Inspirations
Go teach yourself.
Have fun.

36. You
Inspire
Me
❏ Fellow testers
❏ Blogs and Books
❏ Television Shows - Nat Geo Air
Crash Investigation, Watching Tennis
❏ Social testing - testing to learn and
to gather test ideas
❏ Test with your team - testing

37. Summarize
❏ Testers, set the right expectations - Play fair and stay
true.
❏ Testers, as change agents - challenge the status quo
and empower change for a better future for us testers.
❏ Testers, share your accomplishments - Lead the new
way and enable greatness.

38. Image credits
http://5gratefulthings.tumblr.com
www.purposecapitalcleveland.org
www.booktrust.org.uk
www.amazon.in
Credits: To respective owners of the image.

39. @aarjay
Thank you

40. Questions?
Questions are the fuel on which the brain
runs.