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Track Talk W11

Our Eight Senses Shape our Testing and our World

Isabel Evans

15:30-16:15 CEST Wednesday 8th June

How we interact with the physical world affects us, even as we shape and affect the physical world. Similarly, we shape and are shaped by our interactions with the virtual world.

In both the physical and the virtual worlds, our use of tools is part of those interactions. Tools – once we are familiar with them – become extensions of our perceptions, our cognition, and our physical movements. Good tools enhance our flow as we work and allow us to complete tasks we could not otherwise tackle. Poor tools impede our flow, and even become blockers. Even as we choose the tools to shape our world, the tools are shaping our perception of the world.

As we test software and products we are delivering as tools for other people to use, we consider the functionality, and the technical delivery. We also consider all the other attributes that contribute to software quality for our customers. As virtual and physical worlds become more entwined, what else do we need to consider?

Let’s take another step onwards into understanding interactions between people, their tools, and their real and virtual worlds. What if we engage with not just five but all our eight senses? This may take you into new and unexplored territory where I’ll explain how tools tell us what to do, how tools become an extension of our bodies, and how tools use or ignore our senses. This affects what we think about when testing products, and when choosing our own tools for supporting testing.

What you will learn

  1. People don’t simply use tools and technology; they are affected by them, and the interactions between our senses, our tools, our technologies and ourselves are complex.
  2. A good tool we have learned to use supports us by becoming an extension of our body, enabling flow and engagement as we reach our goals. If a tool does not support us well it can impede our learning and flow, and make it harder to reach our goals.
  3. We have eight senses and we use them all. Our testing can help to improve people’s experiences of tools if we understand our eight senses, and how these are affected by the virtual and real worlds

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 45 Minutes
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • New Technologies & Challenges
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Check out this video from Isabel Evans to hear more about her talk, ‘Our Eight Senses Shape our Testing and our World’.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2022.

Session Speaker

Best Paper Winner 2010 and Testing Excellence Winner 2017

Isabel Evans

Student and Consultant – Freelance, United Kingdom

After more than 30 years in IT, on software industry projects, quality and testing practitioner Isabel Evans is now a part-time post graduate student at the University of Malta. Her research focuses on human factors in test automation, studying the interactions of people, systems, tools and technology. Her interest in this topic arose from real life experiences as a test manager, quality manager and test consultant. Isabel authored Achieving Software Quality through Teamwork and chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an eXtreme Testing Environment, The Testing Practitioner, and Foundations of Software Testing. A popular speaker and storyteller at software conferences worldwide, Isabel has chaired EuroSTAR (2019) and HUSTEF (2018), as well as presenting tutorials and keynotes at conferences world-wide. She is a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the British Computer Society, and received the 2017 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award.

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