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© 2024 CGI Inc. 1 Social Software Testing Approaches Maaret Pyhäjärvi June 2024

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 2 Material Attribution by Maaret Pyhäjärvi is licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://github.com/maaretp/legacy/blob/main/talks/2024/SocialSoftwareTestingApproaches.pdf

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 3 What social at work usually looks like? Doing ??? Planning PI planning Sprint planning Backlog refinement Three amigos sessions Daily meetings Hallway whiteboarding Reviews We have options! Traditional pair testing Strong-style pair testing Ensemble (mob) testing Bug bashes / exploratory testing sessions GenAI pair testing Trends: Democratization of debugging (observability); Democratization of data (genAI) Democratization of programming (low code); Democratization of computer resources (cloud); Democratization of testing (testing not testers) …

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 4 Why? Co-generate options Choose to try, choose through doing Practice (doing) over theory (plan) Avoid ping-pong Timely feedback Build more skilled empathetic colleagues

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 5 Tampere Goes Agile 2014 Woody Zuill / Mob Programming “A ridiculous idea - I need to experience it 1st hand”

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 6 https://www.linkedin.com/in/maar et/ @maaretp@mas.to

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 10 https://ensembleprogramming.xyz https://strongstylepairprogramming.xyz https://exploratorytesting.xyz https://bbst.courses/blog/social-software-testing-approaches/

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 11 Learning or Contributing There’s value in holding space for good testing to happen!

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 12 Learning through Osmosis Osmosis is a process that does not require energy.

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 13 Accidental Learning by being intentional about learning. Fooled by the unknown unknowns. You cannot know what you don’t know but you recognize it when you see it.

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 14 https://www.linkedin.com/in/maar et/ @maaretp@mas.to Driver (Hands) Navigator (Brains)

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 15 Comparison Strong Style Traditional I have an idea… Please take the keyboard I have an idea… Give me the keyboard

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 16 Traditional pair testing

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 17 Strong-style pair testing

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 18 Driver (Hands) Designated Navigator (Voice) Navigators (Brains)

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 19 6/5/24 Image from: https://conorfi.com/software- testing/guidelines-for-running-a-bug-bash/ Bug Bash / Exploratory Testing Sessions

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 20 Making Your Choices Approach Best Used For Traditional Pair Testing Working together in an equal pair requiring little rule assistance. Strong-Style Pair Testing Working together in an unequal pair. Ensemble Testing Learning and innovating a shared way of working. Bug Bashes Seeing problems from many perspectives.

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 21 Social software testing approaches are great for… • Larger organizations where functional silos continue to exist (Testers get together to test) • Agile teams where we need to share testing skills (Teams get together to test) • Teaching anything testing related to a group (Training group gets together to test) • Introducing testing perspectives to programming activities (Testers joining ensemble programming)

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 22 Social Software Testing Approaches on Tour From healing my loneliness To Lisi Hocke’s testing tours To many people on tour To social media driven community learning None of this new style of deep, serendipitous learning would be possible without the social software testing approaches

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 23 GenAI Pair Testing External imagination Confidentiality Ethical compensations Intent and productivity

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 24 Becoming polyglot programmer / contemporary exploratory tester I had great ideas even when I did not know how to turn them into code – removing the distance is worth the struggle. Cognitive dissonance

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 25 Insights you can act on Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. We are insights-driven and outcomes-based to help accelerate returns on your investments. Across hundreds of locations worldwide, we provide comprehensive, scalable and sustainable IT and business consulting services that are informed globally and delivered locally. cgi.com