Scripted testing is too rigid for agile projects. Testers need to learn different test ways to be able to optimize the way of testing in an agile project. To do so you need to become more creative. Mastering one way of testing isn’t enough to be a professional tester nowadays. You need to have knowledge and experience with different ways of testing to test well in every situation. Especially in agile project a tester needs to master different ways of testing. In this talk Jan Jaap presents different ways of testing and he describes when these are applicable. Some ways of testing require analytical and logical thinking, others require creative thinking and being able to handle freedom. So with different ways of testing you use different sides of your brain. Most testers are pretty good in logical and analytical thinking, creative thinking is less developed by quite a lot of them. In the second part of the presentation Jan Jaap explains how you can train the right side of your brain and become more creative. Jan Jaap’s talk gives you insight in the different ways of testing you have to master to optimize your test effort and what you can do to be able to apply the more creative ways of testing. (source: agiletestingdays.com)

1. FLEXIBLE TESTING AND USING
THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR BRAIN
Jan Jaap Cannegieter
Vice President SYSQA B.V.
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Agenda
• Testing in a changing world
• Flexibilize testing and the need to develop our
brain
• How to develop your brain
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4. Testing in a changing world

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General changes
• Further process automation
• High tech outsourcing
• Corporate agility
• Increased importance of marketing and sales
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Based on ‘A whole new mind’ by Daniel H. Pink and
‘Corporate agility’ by Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware and Cory Williamson

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General changes…
and what it means for testing
• Further process automation
• Can we automate this test?
• High tech outsourcing
• Can someone with a low fee test this?
• Corporate agility
• Agility in testing
• Increased importance of marketing and sales
• Test whether this product is marketable/salable/usable
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18. Situational testing: different
ways of testing

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Different ways of testing
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Scripted testing Exploratory testing

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Different ways of testing
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Scripted testing
Exploratory testing
Detailed
scripting
Global
scripting
Session
based
testing
Bug
hunts
Test
tours
Pure
exploratory
testing
Based on ‘Telling your exploratory story’
by Jon Bach, Agile 2010 conference
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Scripted testing
Plotting the brains
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Exploratory testing
Detailed
scripting
Global
scripting
Session
based
testing
Bug
hunts
Test
tours
Pure
exploratory
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26. How to stimulate and train the
right side of your brain

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Summary
1. Take away boundaries
2. Encourage flexibility
3. Trust your feelings (body thinking)
4. Bring him/her in the position
5. Brainstorm
6. Use your imagination
7. Perspective based testing / emphasizing
8. Encourage questioning / criticism
9. Train your brains
10. Play (games, painting, acting)
11. Use visualization techniques
12. Don’t tell yourself you can’t
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Further reading
• Stuart Brown: Play. How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the
Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown
• Ted talk about Play by Stuart Brown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VltmSJVMxOs
• Robert S. Root-Bernstein & Michele M. Root-Bernstein:
Sparks of genius. The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's
Most Creative People
• Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
• Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind
• Google on ‘How to become more creative’
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1. We will have to master different ways of testing
2. Different ways of testing require different skills, e.g.
more creativity
3. We have to train us in these skills

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And of course: use different ways of testing
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Scripted testing
Exploratory testing
Detailed
scripting
Global
scripting
Session
based
testing
Bug
hunts
Test
tours
Pure
exploratory
testing
Based on‘Telling your exploratory story’
by Jon Bach, Agile 2010 conference
Download the ebook from http://www.sysqa.nl/publicatie/ebook-situational-testing-english/

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Daniel H. Pink
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“Right-brainers will rule the future”

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Thank you for your
attention and I hope
to see you soon!
Jan Jaap Cannegieter
Vice President SYSQA B.V.
jcannegieter@sysqa.nl
@jjcannegieter
+31-627038827