30 Days of Quality

The 30 Days of Testing Challenge is back!

The time, the theme is Quality and this challenge has been kindly sponsored by Testim.io - Create, edit, run, and maintain end-to-end tests your way. Start your free trial with Testim.io today! 

These challenges are a great way to learn on your own, as a team effort or join in with the wonderful Ministry of Testing community online.

Below is a list of 30 challenges and a bonus challenge, one for each day of the month. Download the PDF below. Save it somewhere. Print it out. Stick it on your wall. Let’s do this!

What are the rules?

The goal is to tick off as many of the challenges as you can. You can do this in your own timeframe, or you can join us in our joint community effort throughout the month of March. We will be encouraging the community to share their progress on this challenge from the 1st of March 2020. 

You may have an image to share, a blog post, a video, a status update, whatever it is!  Come and participate!

Here is how you can participate and share your progress:

• On Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn – use the #30DaysOfTesting hashtag
• On our 30 Days of Testing category in The Club
• Download the PDF

30 Days of Quality, the text version

1. Look up some definitions on what ‘Quality’ is and share your own definition on The Club 
2. Read and share a blog post on ‘Quality’ 
3. Pick a book to read that discusses ‘Quality’ and share on The Club why you’ve chosen it 
4. Capture five different perspectives on ‘Quality’ and share their similarities and differences 
5. Get some members of your team to join you in a game of Quality Jenga 
6. Find out what ‘Quality’ means to your teammates 
7. Follow 5 people on social media who are sharing or working around ‘Quality’ 
8. Sit with your team and find out how you’re building ‘Quality’ into their work 
9. Contribute to a discussion on The Club about ‘Quality’ 
10. Find and read feedback from your customers. What does this tell you about the quality of your product? 
11. Watch the AMA on Quality Engineering and join the conversation on The Club 
12. Create a visualisation that can help describe the different aspects of ‘Quality’ 
13. Find, listen and share a podcast on ‘Quality’ 
14. Read about ‘Quality Characteristics’ and share a characteristic that matters to you 
15. Ask five different teams within your organisation what is the most important quality characteristics for them 
16. Pick a ‘Quality Characteristic’ and use it to guide an exploratory testing session 
17. Pick an app that you use daily, what quality aspects of the app encourage you to use it? Share on The Club 
18. Share a bug you have found in your system and the quality characteristics that it was potentially affecting 
19. Read and share your thoughts on Principle 5 of Modern Testing 
20. Look up and share a definition on Quality Engineering 
21. Share a resource on how you might measure quality 
22. Find out what metrics your internal stakeholders care about and why 
23. Map out how ideas get to production and look for the biggest bottlenecks or problems 
24. Share what quality metrics you track or what metrics you want to track 
25. Research how an external company improves their ‘Quality’ - how can your team adopt these improvements?
26. Create a way to report to your stakeholders your team’s views on quality 
27. What is the role of a quality coach? 
28. Research the difference between Functional Quality and Structural Quality 
29. Contribute to a discussion on The Club about whether there is a difference between code quality and software quality 
30. Share something you’ve learnt from the book you chose to read 
31. Bonus: Map out your SDLC and introduce ideas of places to improve quality