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Re: Toronto Testing Meetup, October Workshops

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 30, 2015
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It’s past 4th Wednesday in October – time for the report on monthly workshop of our testing meetup! In fact, there was another one on 2nd Wednesday – and you’ll see why. Job Finding Club Our leadership group dedicated this month almost solely for this strategic direction. One of the ideas we’ve been pondering about […] ...

Draw Attention With Visual Test Reports

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 21, 2015
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Leave a comment if you first looked at the pictures before reading this text! As I was putting together notes in my book review I made an entry regarding Attention Filter. Recap: Attention Filter mechanics Change detector Subconscious. Always “on” Registers changes in the flow of information Importance ranking Subconscious. Very personal for everyone Based […] ...

Manage Focus Of Your Attention

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 20, 2015
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These are the points I captured while reading 2nd part of “Too much information, too many decisions” chapter of the book “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload” by Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. I put my points and cross-references next to them. Attention Filter mechanics Change detector Subconscious. Always “on” Registers […] ...

Energy Management vs. Time Management

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 19, 2015
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These are the points I captured while reading 1st part of “Too much information, too many decisions” chapter of the book “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload” by Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. I put my points and cross-references next to them. Every day, we are confronted with dozens of decisions, […] ...

Key principles for business-driven development

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 16, 2015
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“Key principles for business-driven development” is IBM article that I recently read and liked very much. It aligns quite well with the concepts of context-driven testing, but looks at the whole project. I’ve mind mapped it for future references. Click below for picture or here to download the XMind file. ...

PACE COLT: KWSQA 2015 “Targeting Quality”

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 15, 2015
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Last week I attended and presented at the conference organized by Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association. I took notes and organized my review in a structured form: Purpose – Attendance – Content – Experience – Cost – Organization – Location – Time. Or PACE COLT, if you like mnemonics (as I do). Purpose The conference theme […] ...

Testers listen to Skeptoid

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 14, 2015
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“How can I learn about critical thinking? What are the examples? How to apply it in testing?” If you’re asking such questions for yourself or for coaching of your team I can help you with a perfect source. Skeptoid is a podcast, public research projects,  quality learning material, and source of excellent examples of critical […] ...

Context Driven Mind

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 13, 2015
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These are the points I captured while reading Introduction to the book “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload” by Dr. Daniel J. Levitin. I put my points and cross-references next to them. Human continuously look for ways to improve brain functioning and / or strengthen it. || This is especially […] ...

A cross-referencing experiment

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 12, 2015
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A few years ago I started using my notebook regularly inspired by Michael Bolton’s article “Exploratory Tester’s Notebook”. Then, as I moved up to lead roles, I got busier with different stuff, and my tester’s notebook turned into a general notebook. I captured meeting notes, my to-do’s, and even fishing plans. It turned into a work, […] ...

Had a blast at CAST, Yay for KWSQA!

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 09, 2015
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Today I’m going to present a talk on Web Accessibility and Accessibility Testing Heuristics at the conference of Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association. Maybe I’m driving at this moment while you’re reading this.. While my talk is less than 2 hours long I foresee some great challenges as a trainer. You see, I want to […] ...

Had a blast at CAST, from keynotes to talks

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 08, 2015
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Running Context Driven Testing Meetup In Your City Lightning Talks is a very fast paced method of conferring. To make sure I get the most of 5 minutes time frame I put together main points in my tester’s notebook. By the way, it turned out a very handy way to publish the contents into the […] ...

Had a blast at CAST, played testing games

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 07, 2015
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This time I’m telling about my workshop experiences, including a session of Avalon gameplay with testers at CAST. TDD Workshop by Robert Sabourin I really enjoyed the workshop. Though the most interesting part for me was not about TDD. Self-organizing team. Maybe not by intent the workshop has perfectly demonstrated this challenge of Agile. The […] ...

Had a blast at CAST!

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 06, 2015
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Achievements unlocked! :) 1st time at the conference in North America 1st time at software testing conference 1st time at CAST 1st time a speaker in English 1st time conducted Workshop 1st time gave Lightning Talk 1st time was captured for (multiple) Youtube videos 1st time met in person work partner with 5 years of […] ...

Dialectical Materialism in Testing

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 05, 2015
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Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of science and nature, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Wikipedia Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method), from Ancient Greek διαλεκτική, is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to European and Indian philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in […] ...

Interviewed by Srinivas Kadiyala

Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 02, 2015
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In September Srinivas Kadiyala interviewed me for Testing Circus – a professional software testing magazine with a breezy name :) I’m thankful for this opportunity and humbled to get in the same line with testing leaders around the world. Access online: Volume 6 – Edition 9 – September 2015. Download here. The interview is pretty […] ...
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