STARCANADA 2018 Concurrent Session : Mobbing for Test Design: Connecting with Your Colleagues’ Test Ideas

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Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Mobbing for Test Design: Connecting with Your Colleagues’ Test Ideas

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Do you have trouble generating test case ideas? Are there seemingly obvious bugs getting through your test plan? Are you considering revamping your current test analysis and design? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this session is for you. You may have heard of mob programming as an extension of pair programming. Mob testing is the same principle: having the whole team test together on one computer, collaborating and throwing out ideas. You end up getting the best from everyone. Join Jeff MacBane and James Fogarty as they show you how to leverage mob test design to create test cases close to the beginning of development. They will share a heuristic test strategy model, explain how to use mob testing to test a product or features during development, and show how to build test scenarios and cases. You will take back lots of new ideas and information, with concrete examples to help you implement and use mob test design and mob testing at your workplace.

Jeff MacBane
TechSmith

Jeff MacBane is a software tester at TechSmith, the makers of Snagit, Camtasia, and other visual communication software applications. He has more than thirteen years of software testing experience in insurance, legal, medical, and commercial software organizations. Jeff has a passion for testing software and continuing to learn about agile and Scrum practices. He has presented at Mid-Michigan Agile Group and Lansing Area Software Testers Meetups.

James Fogarty
TechSmith

James Fogarty is a passionate software testing practitioner. He works at TechSmith, the makers of Snagit, Camtasia, and other visual communication software applications. He works with software testers, developers, and business professionals to level up the software quality by designing tools, teaching automation, and involving the entire development team in testing and improving software quality. He's been testing digital cameras and imaging and commercial software for sixteen years. James cofounded the Lansing Area Software Testers Meetup, a group dedicated to improving software quality and the software community in the greater Lansing area.