Extend Your Testing Capabilities When You Are Not Testing

We cannot ignore that all of us "Testers" love being creative at our work. We want to learn new techniques, new ways of testing, explore more applications in different business fields. Indeed, we are very curious to get more knowledge.

Some of us find that leaving our organization can help us develop more skills as a tester by discovering new projects, dealing with new tools, new languages ... We can't ignore this fact.

But what if we stay at the same organization while it's already challenging, try to learn more different ways and practice them with other testers in the world, and then try to implement them at your work place and share them with your team to improve your way of testing – such as gamifying your way of testing, building testing communities of practice and much more!

Come and learn different activities you can do outside of your working hours that can make you a better tester. The only criteria is - you need to be generous to share and receive from others.

In this session, learn:
- The importance of building communities of practice
- The importance of gamifying your workplace
- Different activities which will strengthen the testing community

Transcript

1. Emna Ayadi
2. • Test Coach • «21st Century Skills for Testers » #21stskills4testers with Ard Kramer • Blog: emnaayadi.com • MOT Meetup Organizer in Sfax About Me @emna__ayadi
3. How can testers survive in an agile environment? @emna__ayadi
4. @emna__ayadi
5. What are the required skills for Testers? @emna__ayadi Technical Skills Unsplash @yomex4life Human Skills
6. #21stSkills4Testers @emna__ayadi Critical Thinking Creativity Collaboration Communication
7. What different activities you can do outside of your working hours that can make you a better tester? @emna__ayadi
8. Creative Thinking @emna__ayadi
9. “Curiosity in everyday life. Question everything. It means internal monologue of questioning without limits and getting responses. Sometimes internally, otherwise - externally. Our brain is a muscle that must be trained. Questioning things is like a squat.“ Masha Surovtseva @emna__ayadi
10. “Recognising habits in daily life that affect and question the way you test certain things. I've started using Shrödingers Cat paradox to identify certain gaps in the requirements :) ” Kevin Gysenbergs  Think in a creative way  Explore and Imagine more useful cases @emna__ayadi
11. “I've been sketchnoting about different topics and some of them have helped me as a person and as a tester in the sense that I'm less critical of myself and understand that no matter how many years of experience we have, we are always learning.” Antonella Scaravilli @RookieSketches  Improve your listening  Track your progress  Use conference hashtag @emna__ayadi
12. Explore @emna__ayadi
13. Effectiveness in finding beautiful places Effectiveness in finding critical bugs Travelling without a detailed plan and make real time discoveries to find hidden places instead of seeing just touristic places known by everyone “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton Explore the software even without having all the details, using heuristics will help you on that. “You don’t always need to wait for complete specifications to start your testing effort.” BY MICHAEL BOLTON @emna__ayadi
14. « I dedicate part of my time to learn dev (api, web, mobile), it helped me to identify errors or improvements, also it allows me to improve the communication with the dev team to explain possible causes and suggest the fix » Erick Raúl Ibarra Pérez  Practice software development (personal & open source projects)  Checkout Monitoring activities  Get involved in Internal processes  Get involved in design and project architecture @emna__ayadi
15. Help and collaborate @emna__ayadi
16.  Collaboration  Learn new things  Provide helpful feedback @emna__ayadi
17. @emna__ayadi #TesterStory #TestingTour https://emnaayadi.com/category/interview/
18. Gamify your Testing @emna__ayadi
19. Test sphere Arena @emna__ayadi
20. Already doing Not often I don’t know @benlinders
21. @emna__ayadi
23. @emna__ayadi
24. https://trello.com/b/wAp7ZnnX/remote-friendly-games
25. Join or Create your community @emna__ayadi
26. @emna__ayadi What is a community of practice (CoP) Practice CoP
27. @emna__ayadi Sense of a Community Membership Influence Feel rewarded Emotional link
28. @emna__ayadi CoP can bring people together to talk and learn about testing
29. @emna__ayadi Knowledge that I have ! Knowledge we have ! Knowledge Iceberg @emna__ayadi
30. “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” Léo Buscaglia Photo : Pamela Tom 3 0 @emna__ayadi
31. Continuous Learning @emna__ayadi Learn new skill and try to integrate it with your testing
32. “Reading through forums where users comment about how they use the app.” Ismael Sánchez Villar  Learn how to ask the right question to the customer  Improve communication with developer  Customer centred approach to quality  Guide your testing
33. “Understanding the final product concept, so you do not only do unit tests, but you make sure the release is conform to what the client would like to have.” Sebastian Zelechowski “Providing direct support to the end users of your product, system or service is very valuable” Danny Peters
34.  Read  Contribute  Initiate Viv Richards Stephan Kämper Maik Nogens @emna__ayadi
35.  Track your learning  Share your ideas  Connect with the testing « Blogger Club » @emna__ayadi
36. Focus @emna__ayadi Source: Getty Images
37. “Playing the piano 🎹🎹 ! Need to focus on details, and to both functional (technical playing the notes) and non-functional (expression) requirements to achieve "fit for ears".” Elena Chronopoulou @emna__ayadi
38.  Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations  Increasing imagination and creativity  Increasing patience and tolerance @emna__ayadi
39. “In a meeting, not focusing on the content of the conversation, but observe people in stead. Each frown unspoken has a potential impact on quality.” Eddy Bruin ”Chess playing ;) Regarding all what i've seen, i'll add Monitoring, ADR, Good methodology (Example mapping etc.), clear workflows...” Messaoudi Badis @emna__ayadi
40. Dan Ashby “ Our ideas that we explore through questions will help us uncover more information. Information that will help us refactor the design (or plan) to make it better! ” Dan Ashby @emna__ayadi
41. T-Shaped Software Tester @emna__ayadi Adaptable Highly motivated Good communicator Testing Generalist Creative Testing specialist
42. @emna__ayadi emnaayadi emnaayadi.com @emna__ayadi