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An Ancient Science for Advanced Critical Thinking for Testers and Teams

Lalitkumar Bhamare

12:30-13:15 CEST Thursday 15th June

They say that the best way to deliver quality software is to give customers what they want.

Sounds quite straightforward and easy to do, right? If you are involved with software development, you know it is easier said that done. What makes it so hard to give the customers what they want? And what role do testers play in it?

Between what customers want and what software teams deliver, things often get lost on the way. Things typically get lost during communication, during interpretations, during analysis, during transforming customer needs into engineering requirements, and so on. One of the key reasons for things going wrong on these different levels is the “lack of critical thinking”. In other words, it is the lack of asking enough questions in context.

In order to deliver what customers want, it is important to develop true knowledge about what is to be delivered. And that requires us to critically think and question the status quo at every stage. Similarly when we test, merely checking the conformance with requirements is not enough. Testers must excel at the science and art of asking questions and questioning things critically.

While studying Nyaya Shashtra (a school of Indian philosophy known for its contribution to theory of logic and treaties on epistemology), Lalit realised how greatly it can benefit testers (and software teams) if they apply Nyaya syllogism and its erotetic model of reasoning to their software efforts.

In this talk, Lalit will share how testers can enhance their critical thinking skills and find “true knowledge” about software based on principles of Nyaya Shashtra.

What you will learn

  1. Understanding Nyaya syllogism and how to apply it for testing
  2. Mastering the art of asking context revealing questions
  3. Building interactional expertise for effective communication

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 45 Minutes
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Software Testing
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Session Speaker

Lalitkumar Bhamare EuroSTAR 2023 Speaker

Lalitkumar Bhamare

Tech Arch Manager – Accenture Song, Germany

Lalit is a Manager (Innovation and Thought Leadership) in the DevOps chapter of Accenture Song, Germany. He is the CEO, Co-Founder, and Chief Editor of the popular software testing magazine, Tea-time with Testers and is co-creator of the State of Testing survey. Lalit is also Vice President at the Association for Software Testing, USA, and looks after AST’s education program. His specialties are his test consulting skills, whole team testing, test management, teaching testing, and helping project teams with Quality Conscious Software Deliveries.

Apart from being a proud winner of the “EuroSTAR 2022 Best Paper” award, Lalit is an international keynote speaker and has spoken at leading testing conferences worldwide. He was Program Chair for ConTest NYC 2020 and a Lead Instructor for the BBST Foundations course with AST as well as conducting Rapid Software Testing full-day training courses. Occasionally, Lalit conducts public workshops on Exploratory Testing, to enable testers to do “more with less”. He regularly assists James Bach in his Rapid Software Testing Applied online classes (RSTA). Setting up and running Testing CoPs (Community of Practice) and establishing an intellectual testing culture in an organization is one of his niche skills.

Lalit was recently congratulated by prominent people in the testing industry for his contribution to the community, which he considers to be the true reward for his work. Find out more about Lalit.

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