Andy glover - Artist within everyone
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This document discusses the importance of creativity in software testing. It provides several quotes emphasizing that testing requires both methodical and creative thinking. The document suggests that users are naturally creative and encourages testers to avoid repetitive testing by developing single solutions and solving problems creatively. Several techniques for creative thinking are presented, such as brainstorming, reversing problems, asking "why" repeatedly, and visual thinking frameworks involving portraits, charts, maps, timelines, flowcharts and graphs. The conclusion emphasizes that creativity is a required skill for testing and encourages practicing creativity and visual testing techniques.
Andy glover - Artist within everyone
- 1. Visual Testing For The Artist Within Everyone Andy Glover Romania Testing Conference 2014
- 2. Is everyone creative? Visual Testing For The Artist Within Everyone
- 3. “Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually challenging task” Glenford Myers (####), the Art of Software Testing
- 4. “Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually challenging task” Glenford Myers (1979), the Art of Software Testing
- 5. Good effective software testing requires methodical work in combination with a creative effort. Rikard Edgren
- 6. Why Creativity Users are naturally creative Avoid repetitive testing Develop single solution vs … Solve software testing problems
- 7. Creativity in testing “Creative thinking is the generation of new ideas.” John Stevenson
- 8. 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
- 9. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso
- 10. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up… and become testers. Pablo Picasso
- 11. 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
- 12. How not to be creative 1. Stress 2. Money 3. Time 4. Fear 5. Competition 6. Process (Amabile: “the 6 Myths of Creativity”)
- 13. How to be creative • Brainstorm • Reversing • Why, why, why, why, why? • Mary had a little lamp exercise • Disproving • Replacement
- 14. Visual Testing For The Artist Within Everyone
- 18. Draw something
- 19. Examples
- 20. Look and See
- 21. Look + See + Imagine + Do (something)
- 22. • Who and What • How many and how much • Where 6 ways of seeing (problems) • When • How • Why
- 23. 1. Who/What Portrait 2. How much Chart 3. Where Map 4. When Timeline 5. How Flowchart 6. Why Why graph Visual Thinking Framework
- 24. Who / What: Portraits
- 25. Where: Map
- 26. When: Timeline
- 27. How Many: Charts
- 28. How: Flowchart
- 29. Why: Why Graphs
- 30. James Bach’s Testing Dashboard
- 31. Example
- 32. Example
- 33. 1. Who/What Portrait 2. How much Chart 3. Where Map 4. When Timeline 5. How Flowchart 6. Why Why graph Visual Thinking Framework
- 34. • Creativity is a required skill in testing • Practice creativity • Try visual testing Summary @cartoontester
- 35. Questions?
- 36. Thank You Andy Glover [email protected] @cartoontester