This document discusses failures at the personal, corporate, and community levels in software testing. At the personal level, failures include not learning helpful skills, poor prioritization, and having an "us vs. them" mindset. Corporate failures involve a lack of understanding of testing and systematically hiring the wrong people. Community failures include overestimating importance and allowing worthless certification schemes. The document raises questions about how to influence decision-makers' understanding of testing and hiring, and how to grow the testing community to exemplify excellence.
Introduction to Accessibility for Girls Who Code Summer Camp 2015 at IntuitTed Drake
This presentation was created for the Girls Who Code Summer Camp at Intuit in June, 2015.
It introduces the topic of accessibility, what does it mean to have a disability, and how coders can make their applications available to all users, regardless of their physical or cognitive ability.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/assessment & http://shellyterrell.com/examprep
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources http://shellyterrell.com/assessment
Introduction to Accessibility for Girls Who Code Summer Camp 2015 at IntuitTed Drake
This presentation was created for the Girls Who Code Summer Camp at Intuit in June, 2015.
It introduces the topic of accessibility, what does it mean to have a disability, and how coders can make their applications available to all users, regardless of their physical or cognitive ability.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/assessment & http://shellyterrell.com/examprep
My books- Hacking Digital Learning Strategies http://hackingdls.com & Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go
Resources http://shellyterrell.com/assessment
Once again dying of boredom in class I hit the computer with the mission of saving the world from the torture I was going through, this is what came of it.
Today's students and families are immersed in a digital media world - via the Internet, iPods, computers, and more! How can we use these tools in school or parish settings with low-end or high end tech environments for faith formation?
CUTGroup 6 OpenStreetMap.org Final Reportsmarziano
Smart Chicago's final report of Civic User Testing session. Tested map editing features OpenStreetMap.org on 1/22/2014. OpenStreetMap.org is a Web site that is built by a community of mappers that contribute local knowledge and information to a map for everyone to use. Anyone can sign up, add information and edit the map.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://www.pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/exam-prep/id12653288
Maryland Library Association 2008 Conference Creating a Technology Petting ZooBald Geek In Md
Technology Training For Library Staff: Creating a Technology Petting Zoo.
Presented at the Maryland Library Association Annual Live and Virtual Conferences
User experiences are your everyday experiences--anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it's delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app's ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://www.pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/poster-tools/id8397701
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Once again dying of boredom in class I hit the computer with the mission of saving the world from the torture I was going through, this is what came of it.
Today's students and families are immersed in a digital media world - via the Internet, iPods, computers, and more! How can we use these tools in school or parish settings with low-end or high end tech environments for faith formation?
CUTGroup 6 OpenStreetMap.org Final Reportsmarziano
Smart Chicago's final report of Civic User Testing session. Tested map editing features OpenStreetMap.org on 1/22/2014. OpenStreetMap.org is a Web site that is built by a community of mappers that contribute local knowledge and information to a map for everyone to use. Anyone can sign up, add information and edit the map.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://www.pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/exam-prep/id12653288
Maryland Library Association 2008 Conference Creating a Technology Petting ZooBald Geek In Md
Technology Training For Library Staff: Creating a Technology Petting Zoo.
Presented at the Maryland Library Association Annual Live and Virtual Conferences
User experiences are your everyday experiences--anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it's delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app's ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://www.pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/poster-tools/id8397701
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Based on hands-on Agile experience acquired over multiple delivery projects and Agile coaching/consulting assignments, Vatsala and Aman share common Agile Testing dilemmas, and possible solutions, tying them to the principle of "moving testing upstream".
Presented at Next Generation Testing conference in Bangalore, India (July 2014).
25 Examples of Native Analytics in Modern ProductsKeen
Data is so ubiquitous, we are sometimes oblivious to just how much of it we interact with—and how many companies are making it a core part of their product. Whether you’re aware of it or not, product leaders across industries are using data to drive engagement and prove value to their end-users. From Fitbit and Medium to Spotify and Slack, data is being leveraged not just for internal decision-making, but as an external product offering and differentiator.
We’ve gathered 25 examples of native analytics in modern software to highlight their power and hopefully inspire their further adoption.
Explain what is a CDN, its advantages, and how to exploit caching on the internet. I cover Akamai in specific, along practices around Cache Headers, Cookie less domains, Fingerprinting, etc.
This talk was delivered at GIDS Bangalore (Apr 2015).
To Deploy or Not-To-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend & Failure AnalysisAnand Bagmar
Here are the slides from my recent talks on "To Deploy or Not-To-Deploy - decide using TTA's Trend and Failure Analysis"
More information available from my blog:
http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/tta
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Mastering the Delivery" and will show you how to manage the things that can go wrong in a presentation and appear in total control of your talk.
This ppt covers the topic regarding Failures, How to overcome from it, Importance of failure in life and Best examples of the successful person who has experience failure in their life.
You are facing a lot of human errors in your organization and you want to improve the performance of your team. Use this new and systemic approach to define a successful action plan.
How To Fail In Public (and not get fired) Paul Taylor
How do you create a culture where it's OK to fail early and experiment? How do you build an evidence base that will gain extra investment into innovation? That was the subject at the final #CommsHero slot of 2016 in Manchester, England
Taking observation insights and transform them into a conveyable form through visualization (sketchnoting)
In the first part of the tutorial, we will give a thorough introduction into sketch noting and the psychology of observation.
In the second half, we’ll apply it to a real testing project. A product owner (impersonated by either Huib or Ilari) talks about the product requirements, while the participants take notes in the form of sketch notes. Then based on that, they will design their tests (preferably in the form of sketch notes, too) and then test the product in real time.
-> participants should show up with a laptop
Learnings:
When you do test design or reporting, don’t only rely on words. Sketch noting will enhance your capabilities and support your thinking process in unusual ways.
Imagine your team is not happily sitting together in the same room or building but scattered across different countries. How do you keep communications up and running? How do you handle such a situation as a manager? How do you cope with potentially not everyone getting crucial information?
Participants will get a (very short) overview of Ilari’s experiences and then be put in a simulation, wherein they have to collaborate on a mini-project and come to a successful end. Of course, there will be disturbances, which will make the endeavor more difficult.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Usually we like to talk about our successes and how well we did with somethingToday we are going to look at the opposite – failure-> Airport check in storry
Here is from my good friend – the OEDand as we will see later, lack of success can be either via positiva or via negativa
all these are not really flattering words
Ok, I think it makes sense to demonstrate failureI brought a special tool that allows me to demonstrate failure – a footbag
OK, I ask a stupid question here – but here we are
No, seriously, there is nothing wrong with failing at an attempt to do something usefulActually, the more things you try the more often you will fail. Get over it
PradeepSoundararajan told me today: The best way to recover from failure is to learn from it
Let’s have a look how failure happens
As you can see in the next few slides, I failed to produce fancy PPT transitions, so I mitigated to a more manual processSo, let’s assume you do something – say you try to learn some testing heuristics
Yes, we have the phrase “It works” here, and by that I mean the thing you do satisfies your own criteria for success to some degree
I think that this path here is often forgotten when we think about failure – failure is often tied to actionLet’s have 2 examples1. You don’t learn to understand object oriented programming2. You refuse to just delete a bug out of the tracking system
I think the second path is the one we usually associate with failureBut then again, maybe if something does not work it is actually ok1. e.g. have all your testers certified2. e.g. trying to learn to program and not get anywhere3. e.g. expose ethically questionable behaviour
It like to distinguishPersonal – Whatever you attempt to do as an individual person, Your own actionsCorporate – This are the failures that are happening at the place we workCommunity – I am referring here to our community here, the club of skilled, context-driven testers
Now, the following list is by far not an attempt to generate a complete list of personal failureThat would be quite impossible
In my case: be a very crappy software developerGenerally: Might it be that too many of us are too untechnical?
I find it astonishing that I have met people who spoke about developers in such a respectless fashion and with complete ignorance of the difficulty or complexity of their job. I am guilty of that in my previous job at a medical device company – I alienated many people by being disrespectful
We testers are angels and everybody else (product owners, developers, managers in general) are idiots
For those of you who have participated at BBST Bug Advocacy know that not every bug is worth fighting for
Well, in this case – bad choice
Incompetence – e.g. if you are not a programmer, you will fail at attempting to set up an automation suiteLack of priority – if you spend all your time on Twitter, your ability to learn new things will be limitedFear – Who has ever been on a hot seat in the RST class?Motivation/Procrastination – This is a major driver – at least for me to failUnderestimating effort – Here you will run out of time and maybe it also touches your motivationHalluzination – You think you can do something but it isn’t soAnd then of course we can never fully single out the Zombie ApocalypseSo, it is there for the sake of completeness
Now, I am referring here to corporations in general, not the ones with a high percentage of skilled testers and a sound strategy, e.g. ;Moolya Testing or House of Testor even worse: live in the illusion of knowing what it is -> I often observed that with Dev Managers
How many of you let people actually test during the interview process?
Again, this is a pest especially in Europe-> Some major banks or big insurance companies insist on it-> The hiring process has been hijacked by incompetent HR people
Absence of evidence != Evidence of absence
I fail to come up with more reasons, maybe you guys can help me out
And now we come to the area I have most passion for
There are about 300 to max 1000 testers, who consider themselves skilled context-driven testersCompare that to the hundreds of thousands of test case executing drones
What evidence to we have when we say: He or She is a good tester?
This goes a bit in the same line. We often appear to take A as evidence for B