Flexibility in testing and using the right side of your brain

Jan Jaap Cannegieter

Vice President SYSQA B.V.

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Which way is she turning?

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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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Testing in a changing world

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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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Creativity and our brain

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Ten ways to stimulate and train the right side of your brain

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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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Daniel H. Pink

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“Right-brainers will rule the future”

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You can see her turning either way

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Thank you for your attention and I hope

to see you soon!

Jan Jaap CannegieterVice President SYSQA B.V.jcannegieter@sysqa.nl@jjcannegieter+31-627038827