Talk Description
In testing we have strategy - the ideas guiding our testing; logistics - getting things in place where testing can happen and tactics - the ways we test. These three are inseparable, yet our awareness of their existence varies. With repetition, patterns emerge in how we approach problems. In this talk, we focus on patterns coming out of repetitions I experience. Time and time again, I find myself joining a new team, to test a new application. I come with a solid foundation of contemporary exploratory testing and 25 years of collected experiences. What are the tactics of exploratory testing I find myself selecting from, starting with and how applying these tactics makes up the work? I expect to be contributing to a product from day 1 with increased scope until the day it is my time to move again. Taking over testing - how exactly do I do that? And is the way I do it essentially different from the way you do it, when I start from a home ground of contemporary exploratory testing - emphasizing results, learning, agency and assuming programming is built into the testing we do in the modern world.
Testing Specialist and Development Manager
Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a software professional with a testing emphasis. She identifies as an empirical technologist, a tester and a programmer, a catalyst for improvement and a speaker. Her day job is working with a software product development team as a hands-on testing specialist. On the side, she teaches exploratory testing and makes a point of adding new, relevant feedback for test-automation-heavy projects through skilled exploratory testing. In addition to being a tester and a teacher, she is a serial volunteer for different non-profits driving forward the state of software development. She was recently awarded as Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016. She blogs regularly and is the author of Mob Programming Guidebook.
