Alan Page: On Testing
- 1. MP Half-day Tutorials 5/5/2014 1:00:00 PM Alan Page: On Testing Presented by: Alan Page Microsoft Brought to you by: 340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888-268-8770 ∙ 904-278-0524 ∙ sqeinfo@sqe.com ∙ www.sqe.com
- 2. Alan Page Microsoft Alan Page is a principal SDET—a fancy name for tester—on the Xbox console team at Microsoft. Edging up on twenty years in software testing, Alan has previously worked on a variety of Microsoft products including Windows, Windows CE, Internet Explorer, and Office Lync. He spent some time as Microsoft’s director of test excellence where he developed and ran technical training programs for testers throughout the company. Alan was the lead author of How We Test Software at Microsoft and contributed chapters on large-scale test automation to Beautiful Testing and Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. You can follow Alan on his blog or on Twitter @alanpage.
- 3. 4/10/2014 1 Alan Page: On Testing Test Ideas are… Ideas
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- 5. 4/10/2014 3 The Adjacent Possible Liquid Networks The Slow Hunch Serendipity Error Exaptation Platforms Verifier Tools Functional Testing Acceptance Tests Scenarios Usability Testing World Readiness Exploratory Testing Take home / Beta Unit Testing Code Coverage Static Analysis Code Churn Analysis Performance Testing Security / Privacy Testing Stress Testing QualityProduct QualityEngineering Customer Facing Technology Facing
- 6. 4/10/2014 4 Testers, Teams, and Test Teams Generalizing Specialists
- 7. 4/10/2014 5 How Does Microsoft …? Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower
- 8. 4/10/2014 6 Some Career AdviceSome Career Advice learn your A-C-B’s
- 9. 4/10/2014 7 find the steepest learning curve ride the gravy train
- 10. 4/10/2014 8 find a mentor don‘t flip the bozo bit