andy glover - artist within everyone
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Visual Testing For The Artist Within Everyone
Andy Glover
Romania Testing Conference 2014
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Is everyone creative?
Visual Testing For The Artist Within Everyone
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“Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually challenging task”
Glenford Myers (####),
the Art of Software Testing
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“Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually challenging task”
Glenford Myers (1979),
the Art of Software Testing
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Good effective software testing requires methodical work in
combination with a creative effort.
Rikard Edgren
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Why Creativity
Users are naturally creative
Avoid repetitive testing
Develop single solution vs …
Solve software testing problems
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Creativity in testing
“Creative thinking is the generation of new ideas.”
John Stevenson
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So be creative!!
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. - Steve Jobs
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Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
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Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up… and become testers.
Pablo Picasso
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But…
Some say: “Creativity is child’s play”
Yet we are knowledge workers
Knowledge work… its primary task of "non-routine" problem solving that requires a combination of convergent, divergent, and creative thinking. - Wikipedia
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How not to be creative
1. Stress
2. Money
3. Time
4. Fear
5. Competition
6. Process
(Amabile: “the 6 Myths of Creativity”)
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How to be creative
• Brainstorm
• Reversing
• Why, why, why, why, why?
• Mary had a little lamp exercise
• Disproving
• Replacement
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Visual Testing For The Artist Within Everyone
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Draw something
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Examples
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Look and See
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Look + See + Imagine + Do (something)
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• Who and What
• How many and how much
• Where
6 ways of seeing (problems)
• When
• How
• Why
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1. Who/What Portrait
2. How much Chart
3. Where Map
4. When Timeline
5. How Flowchart
6. Why Why graph
Visual Thinking Framework
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Who / What: Portraits
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Where: Map
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When: Timeline
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How Many: Charts
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How: Flowchart
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Why: Why Graphs
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James Bach’s Testing Dashboard
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Example
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Example
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1. Who/What Portrait
2. How much Chart
3. Where Map
4. When Timeline
5. How Flowchart
6. Why Why graph
Visual Thinking Framework
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• Creativity is a required skill in testing
• Practice creativity
• Try visual testing
Summary
@cartoontester
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Questions?