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Emna Ayadi

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• Test Coach • «21st Century Skills for Testers » #21stskills4testers with Ard Kramer • Blog: emnaayadi.com • MOT Meetup Organizer in Sfax About Me @emna__ayadi

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How can testers survive in an agile environment? @emna__ayadi

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@emna__ayadi

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What are the required skills for Testers? @emna__ayadi Technical Skills Unsplash @yomex4life Human Skills

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#21stSkills4Testers @emna__ayadi Critical Thinking Creativity Collaboration Communication

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What different activities you can do outside of your working hours that can make you a better tester? @emna__ayadi

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Creative Thinking @emna__ayadi

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“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

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“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

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“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

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Explore @emna__ayadi

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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

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« 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

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Help and collaborate @emna__ayadi

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 Collaboration  Learn new things  Provide helpful feedback @emna__ayadi

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@emna__ayadi #TesterStory #TestingTour https://emnaayadi.com/category/interview/

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Gamify your Testing @emna__ayadi

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Test sphere Arena @emna__ayadi

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Already doing Not often I don’t know @benlinders

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https://trello.com/b/wAp7ZnnX/remote-friendly-games

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Join or Create your community @emna__ayadi

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@emna__ayadi What is a community of practice (CoP) Practice CoP

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@emna__ayadi Sense of a Community Membership Influence Feel rewarded Emotional link

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@emna__ayadi CoP can bring people together to talk and learn about testing

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@emna__ayadi Knowledge that I have ! Knowledge we have ! Knowledge Iceberg @emna__ayadi

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“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” Léo Buscaglia Photo : Pamela Tom 3 0 @emna__ayadi

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Continuous Learning @emna__ayadi Learn new skill and try to integrate it with your testing

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“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

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“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

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 Read  Contribute  Initiate Viv Richards Stephan Kämper Maik Nogens @emna__ayadi

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 Track your learning  Share your ideas  Connect with the testing « Blogger Club » @emna__ayadi

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Focus @emna__ayadi Source: Getty Images

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“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

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 Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations  Increasing imagination and creativity  Increasing patience and tolerance @emna__ayadi

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“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

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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

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T-Shaped Software Tester @emna__ayadi Adaptable Highly motivated Good communicator Testing Generalist Creative Testing specialist

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@emna__ayadi emnaayadi emnaayadi.com @emna__ayadi