STC Carnival Of Testers October 2011

The word “continuous” pops up continually – all of the time(!) – whether it’s integration, deployment, delivery or moaning(?) But one of the biggest tools that any tester has (or smallest if you’re this guy) sits in our head and it aids continuous learning. Let’s look at the learning reports, experiences and reflections from some 34(!) testers:

General

• Trish Khoo has some thoughts on visual learning and mind maps.
• Zeger Van Hese on his illuminating learning journey with mushrooms and reflections to testing.
• For potential conference presenters here are some tips that Lanette Creamer has learnt.
• James Bach on learning in testing and something called a Paired Exploratory Survey.
• John Stevenson on learning aspects connected to product knowledge and exploratory testing.
• Learnings from the back of the room from Markus Gärtner.
• Rob Lambert on mind maps and metrics.
• Lisa Crispin on learnings from conferences.
• Pete Walen on learning from engaging with other testers.
• In the midst of all this learning - beware of fake learning!
• Learnings from Ola Hyltén from his ISTQB experience.

Peer Conferences

These are wonderful learning opportunities.

• Brian Osman on KWST, here and here.
• Lisa Crispin at WAT2, here.
• Jeroen Rosink at DEWT, here.
• Markus Deibel at LEWT09, here.
• SWET2 was covered by Torbjörn Ryber, Rikard Edgren, Sigurdur Birgisson, Ola Hyltén and Simon Morley – here, here, here, here and here.
• Nancy Kelln and Lynn Mckee at POST, here and here.
• Markus Gärtner at GATE, here.

Learning About Framing And Test Framing

• Michael Bolton on many key aspects.
• Some insights from Michael Larsen, here.
• Some learning from Jeroen Rosink, here.
• Ben Kelly on aspects of Framing, here.

New Pens

As always, a shout-out for new bloggers – just starting to display their learning and experiences:

• Henrik Andersson makes some good parallels with conformity, here. It’s reminds of the observation about certain teenagers , “the need for independence, especially if they can do it in a group…”
• David Greenlees. here. on his takeaways and real learnings from conferences.
• Claire Moss, here, with an approach to attending conference tracks.
• A game analogy to learning about a product, here, from Daniel Berggren.
• Daniel Snell, here, on his reasoning for starting a blog.
• Jean-Paul Varwijk, here, with reflections from DEWT triggering the start of his blogging.
• Conor Moore started his blogging odyssey, here, with some thoughts about ISEB.
• First steps, here, from Nolan MacAfee.
• Huib Schoots took his first blogging steps, here.
• More first steps, here, from Simon Schrijver.
• A meaty first post from Joris Meerts, here.

This is just a sample of lots of learning going on! Have you learnt anything? If so, have you told anyone else about it?

Until the next time…