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.

1. Flexibility in 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…
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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Based on: Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind
Een wake up call voor alle professionals stammend uit het informatie tijdperk

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So…
• Less conformance checking, more goal oriented
testing
• Checking will be done by automated testing or by cheaper testers
• More exploratory testing
• More agility and flexibility
• Master different ways of testing
• Different goals of testing
• Only functional testing doesn’t do the job
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14. Creativity and our brain
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18. Ten ways to stimulate and train
the right side of your brain

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Ten ways to enhance your creativity
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. Play (games, painting, acting)
9. Use visualization techniques
10. Encourage questioning / criticism
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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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“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