Use right side of your brain
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Flexibility in testing and using the right side of your brain
Jan Jaap Cannegieter
Vice President SYSQA B.V.
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Agenda
• Testing in a changing world
• Flexibilize testing and the need to develop ourbrain
• How to develop your brain
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General changes…and what it means for testing
• Further process automation
• Can we automate this test?
• High tech outsourcing
• Can someone with a low fee test this?
• Corporate agility
• Agility in testing
• Increased importance of marketing and sales
• Test whether this product is marketable/salable/usable
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Based on: Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New MindEen wake up call voor alle professionals stammend uit het informatie tijdperk
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So…
• Less conformance checking, more goal orientedtesting• Checking will be done by automated testing or by cheaper testers
• More exploratory testing
• More agility and flexibility• Master different ways of testing
• Different goals of testing• Only functional testing doesn’t do the job
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Ten ways to enhance your creativity
1. Take away boundaries
2. Encourage flexibility
3. Trust your feelings (body thinking)
4. Bring him/her in the position
5. Brainstorm
6. Use your imagination
7. Perspective based testing / emphasizing
8. Play (games, painting, acting)
9. Use visualization techniques
10.Encourage questioning / criticism
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Further reading
• Stuart Brown: Play. How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown
• Ted talk about Play by Stuart Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VltmSJVMxOs
• Robert S. Root-Bernstein & Michele M. Root-Bernstein: Sparks of genius. The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People
• Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
• Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind
• Google on ‘How to become more creative’
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Thank you for your attention and I hope
to see you soon!
Jan Jaap CannegieterVice President SYSQA [email protected]@jjcannegieter+31-627038827