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Keynote 3

Whose Test Is It Anyway?

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

09:00-10:00 CEST Thursday 15th June

There is a question that people keep asking me, expecting there is a simple recipe they just need to learn: how would you test this? When your job is to find some of what others may have missed, the responses vary greatly. Software development is a social activity, and the social context determines what work gets priority.

In this talk, we review my 10-step recipe in exploratory unit testing of a program created using computer-assisted software authorship.

When AI writes us a program, we can ask ourselves how we would test this, and review the recipe and results. The 10-step recipe, clear in hindsight, is created with social software testing, by pair and ensemble testing with individuals and groups for training purposes. I picked up ingredients that make my recipe particularly good for demo purposes.

You won’t be repeating my testing, you will be testing other programs and systems. Instead of the recipe, let’s focus on succeeding with the ingredients: social software testing – sourcing other people’s ideas; perspectives and oracles – knowing how to operate and assess in a versatile manner; and strategies and tactics – knowing ideas that lead us, and diversifying options of ingredients. It’s not about testers, but testing. It’s about the results, the impact, the feelings, and the costs – both direct and opportunity.

We are stronger together than alone, and always both learning and contributing, getting the best out of everyone into the work we do.

What you will learn

  1. Exploratory Unit Testing - a majority of production failures can be reproduced by a unit test, which then also means it can be found by a unit test
  2. Ensemble and Pair Testing - social software testing approaches contribute to getting the best out of everyone into the work we are doing
  3. Testing, not testers - we share tests in teams across test levels through collaboration

Session Details

  • For All
  • 1 Hour
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Software Testing
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Session Speaker

Testing Excellence Winner 2020

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Principal Test Engineer – Vaisala, Finland

Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is an empirical technologist, a tester and a (polyglot) programmer, a catalyst for improvement, a speaker and an author, and a community facilitator. She has been awarded two prestigious global testing awards, Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 (MIATPP) and EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award (2020), and selected as Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019&2020. She’s spoken at events in 25 countries delivering over 400 sessions. With 25 years of exploratory testing under her belt, she crafts her work role into a mix of hands-on testing and programming, and leading and enabling others. She leads TechVoices enabling new speakers, blogs at https://visible-quality.blogspot.fi and is the author of three books: Ensemble Programming Guidebook, Exploratory Testing and Strong-Style Pair Programming.

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