Re: Toronto Testing Meetup, May Workshop: Roundtable on Behavior Driven Development Planning And so it is claimed: When launching a new digital project, there can be a disconnect between: • the business being truly able to define the desired outcomes • the developer’s understanding of what needs to be built, and • the business’ understanding of the technical […] ...
One of the exciting things about testing meetup is the mix of roles and experiences people bring in. This time we had a research workshop with a rare opportunity of getting feedback from Senior Program / Product Manager participating in our event. My online readers probably have a clue about the theme. Extreme Testing Introduction […] ...
Didn’t I say I’m going to take it seriously? Stay tuned for examples in the experience report! Tactical Tips for Business Strategic Testing Most of the testing is done by following functions and features.. But Business wants to know whether the product helps the users to achieve their goals. Business DOES NOT want to know […] ...
Leaders in testing practice are constantly and actively looking for ways to test faster, more efficiently, and more creatively. They also look for ways to find the most relevant bugs, and to tell the relevant story. Personas seemed to be very promising idea, and in the past few years I saw it mentioned here and […] ...
We held a joint Weekend Testing Americas / Weekend Testing Toronto event last Saturday. Great session, high attendance, intense engagement! Our theme was guided structured product exploration. We used SFDIPOT set of heuristics in the context of a free web based game. What is “SFDIPOT” or “San-Francisco Depot”? It’s a mnemonic standing for Structure-Functions-Data-Interfaces-Platform-Operations-Time; developed ...
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 […] ...
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 […] ...
After a short vacation we’ve resumed workshops in our testing meetup! Quick notes below. Job Finding Club gave a quick intro on our community services to the newly joined members Kraig Lenehan reviewed resumes and advised members in private Coming up - practice interviews! This is a rare opportunity, and places will be very limited. […] ...
“Professional Growth Leads and Hacks” is a lightning talk I gave at the Toronto Testing Meetup. These are not the only ideas, but these are what I tested myself and turned out to be rather great. Intended audience: testers. Beginner testers and “wanna-be” testers for sure, and everyone one else willing further advance on the […] ...
Seems like it’s been just a few days, but it’s been a month - time for another workshop in our testing meetup! This time we had even bigger attendance. Below I share my experience report. Participants (organizer, facilitator), Kraig Lenehan (event host, presenter) Niketa Patel, Rachael, Sumant Pujari, Nick Norbeck, Raman Khanna, Vitor Fragoso, […] ...
An Opening Comment Since beginning of this year, I’ve been running Toronto chapter of Weekend Testing Americas, mixing online and live events. As we’re expanding, I was presented an opportunity (i.e. a venue) to run workshops. In June we had an opening session, dedicated to discussion of our work experiences and gathering of feedback from […] ...
(Picture credit: “Mind Map Laws” - 7 Steps to Making a Mind Map by Tony Buzan, the inventor of mind mapping) There is a strange confusion about electronic artifacts: they’re seen as a deliverable on and by itself. Process model document is confused with the working process. Intention documents (especially test plans) are given much more […] ...
And so we did. In January we held live networking event followed by the first Weekend Testing Toronto session online. Continuing ideas from my previous posts, I set up Trello board and created mission statement. Purpose The purpose of the session is practical assessment of Trello tool as a long-term medium (whereas Skype is short-term medium) […] ...
Disclaimer: my views, expressed in these series, not necessarily reflect views of all Weekend Testing facilitators and instructors. Yesterday, I wrote about all the positive outcomes from Weekend Testing. Today’s post is about some issues and challenges we’ve been facing. Actually, when I checked, I wrote about some of them, too - quite a few […] ...
Disclaimer: my views, expressed in these series, not necessarily reflect views of all Weekend Testing facilitators and instructors. Foreword And again I open series of posts on Weekend Testing in my blog. Part of it is to organize my thoughts and reflections on the experiences of the past seasons. Part of it is to announce new […] ...
