1. Bugs on Bugs! Hidden Testing Lessons from the Looney Tunes Gang
Robert Sabourin
President & Principal consultant
AmiBug.Com, Inc.
Montreal, Canada
January 3, 2019
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2. Bugs on Bugs!
Characters from the Looney Tunes Gang—Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Michigan J. Frog, and others—provide wonderful metaphors for the challenges of testing. From Bugs we learn about personas and the risks of taking the wrong turn in Albuquerque. Michigan J. Frog teaches valuable lessons about bug isolation and how ambiguous pronouns can dramatically change the meaning of our requirements. The Tasmanian Devil not only teaches us about the risks of following standard procedures but also shows us practical approaches to stress and robustness testing. And, of course, we learn about boundary conditions and challenging physics from Yosemite Sam. Bugs teaches lessons for the young at heart—novice and experienced alike. Robert shares some powerful heuristic models that you can apply right away.
The value of modeling personas for test design
How metaphors can help us understand and communicate
Heuristic models are not only useful—they’re fun
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3. Bugs on Bugs! Overview Learning and Metaphors Overture Hunting Seasons
Road Runner & Coyote
Wrong Turns
Tazmanian Devil
Yosemite Sam
Michigan
Foghorn Leghorn
Sylvester Tweety
Portable Holes
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4. Learning and Metaphors
Teaching
Learning
Retaining
Applying knowledge
Share experiences
Don’t get carried away …
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5. Overture Curtain, Lights!
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6. Overture Curtain, Lights!
Everyone knows melody but nobody seems to know the lyrics!
Project kick off
On with the show this is it!
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7. Duck Season Who is the duck? Who is the rabbit? Isn’t it obvious?
Peer rivalry
Common nemesis
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8. Rabbit Season Just because it was written down doesn't make it so!
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9. Duck Season Ambiguous pronouns Fallacious negation Role playing
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10. Road Runner and Wiley Coyote
Hungry with purpose
Relentless Pursuit
Persistent
But … Silly
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11. ACME Tools Relies on one major vendor Tools will solve every problem
Complex plans
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12. Bugs Wrong Turn Unexpected destination? Path chosen vs. the path taken
Common cause
Maps
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13. Bugs Wrong Turn Wrong Turn in Albuquerque Same mistake every time
Too many choices
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14. Tazmanian Devil Run for your life
Bugs is calm while all the other animals panic
Is this a good thing?
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15. Tazmanian Devil Stress Testing Persona Abuse cases
What if Taz used our software?
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16. Tazmanian Devil And especially rabbits Do not blindly trusts lists
React to emergencies
Be agile
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17. Yosemite Sam
'Fearless Freep'
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18. Yosemite Sam Defy physics Roughest Toughest Hombre
Dare to cross a line
Limits
Boundaries
Challenges
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19. Michigan J. Frog
Living in a box in a cornerstone with important papers
Sings & dances but only in front of the person who found him!
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20. Michigan J. Frog Elusive Bugs Does not happen on developers machine
Disappears when you show it to others!
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21. Foghorn Leghorn Loud Mouth Schnook! Watch Dog Chain Limits Boundaries
Abuse
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22. Foghorn Leghorn Smart kid
Proves it can be done even if it does not make sense!
I don’t believe my eyes
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23. Does This Make Sense? Test Analysis January 3, 2019
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24. Sylvester and Tweety Hungry Persistent
But does not rely on a crazy tool vendor!
Watch out for granny’s umbrella.
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25. Sylvester and Tweety Elusive Bugs I thought I saw a puddy cat?
I did I did see a puddy cat!
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26. Portable Holes Great Ideas New physics No constraints
Technological leap
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27. Portable Holes Imagine Non invasive Tools See inside of anything
Dreams and realities
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28. Thank You
Questions?
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29. Lyrics The Bugs Bunny Show Overture, curtain, lights,
This is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and hearsing our parts
We know every part by heart
Overture, curtain, lights
This is it, we'll hit the heights
And oh what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it
Tonight what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it.
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30. Lyrics
Road Runner
If you're on the highway and Road Runner goes beep beep.
Just step aside or might end up in a heap.
Road Runner, Road Runner runs on the road all day.
Even the coyote can't make him change his ways.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you.
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn he can never mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.
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