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. In the presentation Jan Jaap will present different ways of testing like global scripting, session based testing, bug hunts, test tours and pure exploratory testing. All have proven to be useful in agile projects. In projects where different ways of testing are used drafting a test strategy is different compared to a project where only one way is used. Jan Jaap will explain how a test strategy is made in a project where different ways of testing are used. The things to take into consideration in an agile project will also be explained. This talk gives you an insight in the different ways of testing you have to master to optimize your test effort. Main Statement: Scripted testing is for agile projects too rigid to be used in agile. Testers need to learn different ways of testing to be able to optimize the way of testing in an agile project. Key Learnings: Scripted testing, the way of testing most of us learned and used in the past, doesn’t work in agile projects. It’s too rigid Professional testers need to master different ways of testing to be able to test well in an agile project. The pros and cons of different ways of testing in agile projects.

1. Shift to the right side of your brain:
Diversifying the ways you test
Jan Jaap Cannegieter
Vice President SYSQA B.V.

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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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Situational testing
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Focussed on action
Flexible
Pragmatic
Rely on the tester
Focussed on test execution
Focussed on preparation
Focussed on planning
Rely on the method
Confidence in the process
Focussed on documentation
Exploratory testing
Detailed
scripting
Global
scripting
Session
based
testing
Bug
hunts
Test
tours
Pure
exploratory
testing
Download the ebook from http://www.sysqa.nl/publicatie/ebook-situational-testing-english/
Scripted testing

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Choose your way of testing
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Organi-
zation
Test
goals
System
Test
skills
Develop-
ment
method
Documen-
tation
Situation

10. Situational testing, creativity
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Scripted testing
Plotting the brains
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Exploratory testing
Detailed
scripting
Global
scripting
Session
based
testing
Bug
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Test
tours
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exploratory
testing

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Statement:
We select and train our tester
only in the left-side competences.
To diversify the way we test we should
train the right side of our brain.
So, the question is, how do we make
testers more creative?
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Summary
1. Be born that way
2. Perspective based testing / emphasizing
3. Take away boundaries
4. Offer flexibility
5. Encourage the use of feeling (body thinking)
6. Bring him/her in the position
7. Brainstorm
8. Encourage observe and imagine
9. Encourage criticism / questioning
10. Train your brains
11. Play (games, painting, acting)
12. Use visualization techniques
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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
• Google on ‘How to become more creative’
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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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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