From Tester Childhood To Adult Mette Bruhn-Pedersen & Brian Robinson

Testers Bill of Rights By Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb

Testers have the right to unambiguous and clear requirements, qualities must be quantified. Testers have the right to be a party to setting the quality levels of process and documents inputs, and to their product outputs. Testers have the right to sample the process and document inputs, and to reject inputs of poor quality. Testers have the right to test evolutionarily; early as the system increments. Testers have the right to an even workload, adequate resources, and to have a life. Testers have the right to specify the potential consequences of products that they have not been allowed to test properly. Testers have the right to not clean up sloppy work by others, but to test for compliance to requirements. The Testers Bill Of Rights

What Are Your Challenges ? We would like to spend a short while collecting information from you about the challenges you face in your everyday work as a tester in your organisation We will apply the techniques we are presenting here to a selection of these problems You will also get a chance in the afternoon session to apply the technique we are presenting to one of your particular problems

Conscious / SubconsciousParts of our Personality Thoughts, Beliefs, Physiology and Behaviour Inner Child / Inner Parents The Drama Triangle

Reptilian Brain Instinct, survival, eating, aggression, dominance, reproducing.... Responds by one of the 3-F’s Fight, Flight or Faint ! Mammalian Brain Emotions, parenting, mood, memory, “value judgements.” Primate Brain language, abstraction, planning, self-awareness, logical analysis

Conscious Mind Subconscious Mind Logical Self-Awareness Planning Analytical Emotions “Biological hard disk” Instincts Automatic bodily functions Automatic learnt behaviour Verbal Language Non-Verbal communication Reasoning

Who Am I

Inner Child and Inner Parents I am OK as I am I can I learn I do my best I am not good enough I always do it wrong I can’t do it, you can I never do enough You are fine as you are You are developing I can help you if you need it You can do it You are not good enough, I am. You can’t do it, I can You never do enough

The Drama Triangle Victim Rescuer Persecutor You are not good enough You can’t do it. You never do enough You are not good enough. I am You can’t do it. I can. I can’t do it, You can. I am not good enough, You are. It’s not my fault. Its the others. I can’t do it I am not good enough I always do it wrong I never do enough

Escape From The Drama Triangle Rescuer Persecutor You are not good enough You can’t do it. You never do enough You are not good enough. I am You can’t do it. I can. Victim I can’t do it, You can. I am not good enough, You are. It’s not my fault. Its the others. I can’t do it I am not good enough I always do it wrong I never do enough Guide You learn from your experiences I can guide you You can do it Creator / Initiator I can. Can you guide me ? I am good enough. I need some extra resources. I can do it I learn new things I do my best I learn from my experiences Motivator We are always growing. I support you I challenge/motivate you Here are the resources you need Mentor

Practical Workshop Of The Drama Triangle Examine a practical example from our everyday experience as testers or test managers Split into groups and role play ourselves in the Drama Triangle. Look at test methodologies and examine our reactions while in the Drama Triangle Experience a technique to stop and extract ourselves from the Drama Triangle Look at technical methodologies again with a new approach when out of the Drama Triangle

A communication model. Internal and External How we process and respond to information. Our thoughts, beliefs and behaviour Analysisng what went wrong Modelling what works Toolbox of Techniques A Set of Guiding Principles NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming

External Events Filters Generalise / Delete / Distort Attitudes Beliefs Memories Values Decisions Language Internal Representation Physiology State Behaviour

Guiding Principles NLP Presuppositions

We experience a model of the world, not the world as it “really” is

Respect other people’s model of the world

Every behaviour has a positive intention

People are not their behaviour

There is no failure only feedback

I control my mind and therefore my results

Every situation contains many possibilities. If what you are doing is not working.... do something else

The actual meaning of your communication is displayed in the response you get

We cannot not communicate

Flexible people and organisations have an advantage over less flexible.

Examine a practical example from our everyday experience as testers or test managers Choose several of the NLP Presuppositions Demonstration of the Substitution of Limiting Beliefs Split into groups and use the same technique to work on the problems that you have presented Discuss the experience Practical Workshop On The NLP Technique - Substitution of Limiting Beliefs

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