testing lessons from the land of make believe

T20 Test Techniques 5/5/16 15:00

Testing Lessons from the Land of Make Believe

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Rob Sabourin

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Rob Sabourin amibug.com Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than thirty-three years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. Rob wrote I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children's book; works as an adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University; and serves as the principle consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc. Contact Rob at [email protected].

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Testing in the Land Make Believe

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Rob Sabourin has discovered testing lessons in Sesame Street, the Simpsons, the Looney Tunes gang, Great Detectives, Dr. Seuss, and many other unlikely places, but this year he journeys to the Land of Make Believe. Rob's grandchildren Jane & Suzy draw him into the Land of Make Believe. Every visit is a new adventure. By leaving reality for the realm of play Rob has discovered many simple truths and clever strategies for solving stubborn technical, management, and people-related software testing problems. An imaginary tea party teaches role playing, simulation, re-focusing and test leadership. Imaginary messes suggests powerful environment virtualization strategies. Are you robust enough to romp around the playground? Bake mud pies with variability, combinations and permutations. Who can enter the land of make believe without the blessing of beautiful princesses whose whimsical authority demonstrates adapting to stakeholder value systems? Open the tickle chest to discover story boards, affinity analysis, test design, scenarios and attacks. Join Rob and wonder into the wonderful Land of Make Believe. Join Robert to see if Jane and Suzy's imagination inspire you with powerful testing ideas.


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Robs Grandchildren

Suzy (just 4)

Jane (still 5)

Eva (13 soon 21)



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Testing Lessons from the Land of

Make Believe


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Tea Party


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Tea Party Tea Time Toy Cups

Imaginary Tea



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Testing Lessons from the Land of

Make Believe


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Tea Party Formal Pomp

Circumstance



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Tea Party Invitation Protocol

Dress Code



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Grandpa's Wrong Sitting Down Pouring Tea Holding Cup



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Janes Role Participant Facilitator

Whip



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Tea Party Rules

Persona Character



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Model user Goals Skills Abilities Experience

Personas UX Improv


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Tea Party UX User Task

Purpose



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Tea Party UX Guide

Test Approach Context



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Tea Party UX Business Technical

Organizational



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Tea Party UX Facilitator Enable UX

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Tea Party UX Referee

True to Persona On or Off Rails



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Do it yourself - UX


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Tea Party Exploratory UX

Pairing

Tester

Observer



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The Art of Make Believe


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Abstract Variation not form

Realism Simplified model


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Combinatorics Catch outliers

Pareto Analysis Typical transactions


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Music of Intentional Blindness


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Music Tells Story Right to left

Relate to sounds Metaphor


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Birds fly to Mexico from Alberta

Some fly high

Some fly low

Some swim

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Ideas from environment

Ideas from sound

Imagine relationship

Tell a full story

Different paths

Different results


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Social Networking

Usage Scenarios


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Scenario Based Testing


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Swings


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How high

Equity

Dont push me

Push me in tandem

Harmony


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Play Fire Truck


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Dress up Props Real enough Environment


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Value Sync


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Good enough? Scope Depth Focus Coverage


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Simulate Blend Of

Environment Experience User Context


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Extreme Ideas


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Really Talk to Animals


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Mock Objects


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States of existence


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Thank You

Questions?


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