iyt - codemash 2017
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Improv[(e)]Your
Testing!
What?
Why?
How?
Present some novel and notable ways to think about testing
To help improve your testing
By using improv as an analogy for testing
Improv
Shallow Agreement
Shallow Agreement
The process of creating and performing spontaneously, without planning.
Improv(ising)
The process of creating and performing spontaneously, without planning.
Improv(ising)
The process of evaluating a product by learning about it through experimentation, which includes to some degree: questioning, study, modeling, observation and inference.
Testing
The process of evaluating a product by learning about it through experimentation, which includes to some degree: questioning, study, modeling, observation and inference.
Testing
“Improvising on stage is obviously a little different – the performers are trying to entertain an audience.”
The process of creating and performing spontaneously, without planning, to entertain an audience.
Improv
“Testing supplies vital information about the product to those who must make decisions about it.“
The process of evaluating a product by learning about it through experimentation, which includes to some degree: questioning, study, modeling, observation and inference to inform a customer.
Testing
Improv & TestingThe process of creating and performing spontaneously, without planning, to entertain an audience.
The process of evaluating a product by learning about it through experimentation, which includes to some degree: questioning, study, modeling, observation and inference to inform a customer.
“Following some simple, basic rules…may result in much funnier, intelligent, and more interesting scenes.“
Rules“Rules“
More interesting scenes
More entertaining to an audience
More successful improv
“Rules“
More successful improv
“Rules“
“Rules“
More successful testing?
Applied Improv
!Oops
ortunity!Oops
Yes, And
Listen
Listen
No Driving
Know the Characters
Focus on the Relationship
Focus on the Relationship
Know the Environment
Know the Audience
Get Ideas
Contemplate Death
Rehearsal
SummaryYes, And Listen No Driving
Know the Characters Focus on the Relationship Know the Environment
Know the Audience Get Ideas Contemplate Death Rehearsal
