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W11
Personal Excellence
10/15/2014 1:45:00 PM
Adventures of a Social Tester
Presented by:
Martin Nilsson
House of Test
Brought to you by:
340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888-268-8770 ∙ 904-278-0524 ∙ [email protected] ∙ www.sqe.com
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Martin Nilsson
House of Test As a result of a mistake, Martin Nilsson started his career in Test working with mobile platforms. Martin says this mistake was the best one he has made in his professional life because testing suited his temperament perfectly. Several years later he joined the Swedish firm House of Test Consulting where he still works today. After a stint in the telecom industry, Martin became a performance test consultant for a shipping company. He then changed assignments to consult as an exploratory tester for a company in the business intelligence business and today consults as a project test manager for that same company. Follow Martin on Twitter @MartinNilsson8.
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Adventures of a Social Tester An experience report from a social
tester
By Martin Nilsson
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A social tester according to James Bach
• Social Tester: The social tester wants you! Social
testers discover all the people who can help them and prefer working in teams to being alone.
Social testers understand that other people often
have already done the work that needs to be
done, and that no one person needs to have the
whole solution. A social tester knows that you don’t
have to be a coder to test– but it sure helps to
know one. A good social tester cultivates social
capital: credibility and services to offer others.
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My story
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An early experience about building rapport using
mail and chat and why I started reading Times of India
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A later experience and a course that taught me the
importance of relationships
and how I learned to use the coffee cup as a
work tool
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How I work today and some practical advice on how system
analysis can be used
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Dev. Team 1 Dev. Team 2
Off-shore dev. team
Project Management
Test Team Project 1
Me
A simplified container analysis Inspired by the work of Donalde Gray
Project 2
Service tester
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Dev. Team 1 Dev. Team 2
Off-shore dev. team
Project Management
Test Team Project 1
A simplified container analysis Inspired by the work of Donalde Gray
Project 2
Service tester
Me
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Containers
Differences
Exchanges few
many
small
large
close
long way
strong
high
Agreement
weak
low
STABLE
CHAOS
Certainty
Original diagram created by Donalde Gray
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A recent example
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3
Test Lead
Test Lead forum led by
Test Coordinator
(me)
Manager Project Leader
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A recent example – What I did
• “Presentation” for Managers about the work of the
test leads
• Push Project leads to sync with test leads
• Weekly morning coffee meeting with a weekly
guest from the project
What more happened • Better organization
• Clear goals and responsibilities
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My biggest learning
The software we create is merely a subsystem of the
human system. Therefore a solution to a problem
might be worth looking for on the human side.
When working the human side a coffee cup is an
outstanding work tool.
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Questions and perhaps some answers!