ALM Summit 2011 DAY 3 ( #ALMSummit )

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Our expl. testing tours: Reflex (responsiveness of IDE), Idiot (hit F1 constantly), Palatial (3 monitors), footprint (memory use) #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Exploratory Testing Tours: Guidebook (highlights), Back Alley (not oft used areas), Supermodel (looks is everything, U/X) #ALMSummit

Steve Lange @stevelange

Exploratory "testing tours" - guidebook, back alley, supermodel, etc. @anutthara referencing Whittaker's book. #almsummit

Keith Matthews @keithmat

Using the sales demos as a test plan. You mean look at the things folks are going to make a purchase decision on? Hmmm... #almsummit

Brandon @brandonburk

TFS cloud service currently averaging 99.93% availability, future: aiming 4 99.9% financially guaranteed 4 paying customers #almsummit

Rodrigo Benin @rodrigobenin

Mitos sobre teste exploratório #almsummit http://t.co/SMa99cnf

Chad Albrecht @chadalbrecht

"Exploratory testing helps testers focus on what matters." -Anu Bharadwaj #Microsoft #almsummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Ooooh, "Mythbusters"! I totally wanna see @anutthara blow stuff up :) #ALMSummit

Keith Matthews @keithmat

@OakParkGirl @anutthara - exploratory testing myths - Glad you typed these so I didn't have to. =) #almsummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Exploratory testing myth #3: Bugs found through exploratory testing are hard to repro ~@anutthara #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Exploratory testing myth #2: there is no way to measure exploratory testing ~@anutthara #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Exploratory testing myth #1: Exploratory testing is ad-hoc, random testing ~@anutthara #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Don't test to the spec, the spec might be outdated or wrong. Test to customer expectations, customers don't care about the specs #ALMSummit

Keith Matthews @keithmat

Testing working software is the gold standard. No one uses a spec, they care about the software. #almsummit

Keith Matthews @keithmat

Exploratory testing - Designing the test plan and testing at the same time. Is this software adding value? #almsummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Exploratory testing = Simultaneous design and execution of test cases to make sure the tool is providing customer value #ALMSummit

David Scruggs @davescruggs

@OakParkGirl --take notes on Anu's session--I'm sitting in Doug Neumann's TFS Azure Session. #ALMSummit

Simon Reindl @s_reindl

Tester focus - If I was a user would I use it? Is this the best customer value I can deliver? #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

In the end, it's value to the customer that matters, they don't care how it got done or how long it took #ALMSummit

Chuck Charbeneau @cacharbe

OH: Doug Neuman is a reformed Criminal (with a passion for Hosted TFS). #almsummit

Steve Lange @stevelange

@anutthara customers want your software to do what they want it to do - they don't care how you wrote it. #almsummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

"Exploratory Testing" wth #TFS11 with @anutthara (who is truly one of the nicest people I have ever met, finally) #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

EXCELLENT question about too much metric collecting leading to "code myself a mini-van" syndrome @chadalbrecht :) #ALMSummit

🕸🕷OakParkGirl 🕷🕸 @OakParkGirl

Did Jason just say two-thousand-and-mumble when we ship? That's hilarious! #ALMSummit

Martin Hinshelwood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 @MrHinsh

There is a fundimental miss understanding that just because you need to plan for releases that you are doing waterfall! Not so. #AlmSummit