Let's focus on the conference itself, the event took place in Stockholmsmassan, which is the local venue for international fairs and congresses, located in southern part of the city called Älvsjö
(thanks to the hotel receptionist I learnt how to pronounce it).
(thanks to the hotel receptionist I learnt how to pronounce it).
The conference took 4 days in total, 1 whole day tutorial, 0.5 day tutorial (we had to register for our selected tutorials in advance) and 2.5 remaining days dedicated to the conference (presentations, keynotes, networking sessions). As a part of the conference there was also large room for exhibitors where several technology companies could present their activities. With some of the companies you could actually even win some interesting gadgets or devices (such as Ipad, drone, Raspberry Pi). I tried but unfortunately no success, maybe even better as I did not have enough space left in my luggage. Giving concrete examples, some of the companies in the exhibition were:
Hewlett-Packard
Accenture
Smart Bear
CA Technologies
LeapTest
Applitools
TransWare
GameBench
GreenSQA
Hiptest
... and others
From the networking perspective, I was really glad to have the opportunity to meet and spend some time with 4 my colleagues from the office in Brussels, Anne-Francois, Isabelle, Johan, Marc, I'll look forward to seeing you again soon either in Brussels or in London. Perhaps we'll work one day on a project, who knows.
I had great impression of the testers from Finland. As the testing community there is relatively small (population of Finland is about 5.5 million), the people know each other quite well and like to organise frequently events for knowledge sharing or just getting to know each other. And they are actually very passionate about the work they do and enthusiastic too. I can imagine I could learn quite a lot from those guys. One of them, his name was Anti, told us how he listens a track and puts his hands up every day before he starts with the testing work. This is just to get to the winning spirit, shall I try the same?
About my selection of the tutorials, I tried to choose both technical/process and soft-skills oriented, of course one of the key factors was also to choose something which I could use in my day to day work now or in a near future. Selection was pretty big actually, I chose following.
>>> 31/10/2016
Tutorial A | Metamorphosis - Moving to Agile and staying Agile
Fran O'Hara - Inspire Quality Services, Ireland
Tutorial about learning from the experiences of what works and what does not when transitioning to agile. Focused on the quality and and test perspective. It also covered how to maintain and improve the level of performance after the initial transition to ensure the benefits achieved are sustained and long lasting.
Topics included:
>>> 01/11/2016
Tutorial I | Stay Sharp - Games to Engage and Enthuse your Testers
James Lyndsay - Workroom Productions Ltd
Do bored testers make bad testers? Are interested testers more observant and more innovative? Do they find more innovative bugs? This workshop was meant to be for everybody who answered "Yes" to the 3 question above. Workshop was split into several group exercises, 20 minutes long each.
Some of the exercises were:
... List of another interesting sessions I attended during the remaining days:
Two Generations on Software Testing - The Way We Learn
Christian and Gitte Ottesen - Systematic A/S, Denmark
This tutorial was lead by mother and son, they both represented two generations - as a family and as testers. Based on their individual journeys, they took us through different ways of learning; what worked, what did not, thoughts and expectations about how to learn and develop their craft in the future.
How We Learned to Love Quality and Stop Testing
Sally Goble - The Guardian, UK
Stories from the Guardian's QA team (successful and otherwise) about adopting a holistic approach to quality and the experiments and the lessons learned in their adventure to ditch conventional approaches to testing.
How this Tester Learned to Write Code
Joep Schuurkes - Mendix, Netherlands
Successful story about how this person learned himself to write a code. In his story it started with command line (where-else) and continued via shell scripting and VBA (the horror, the horror) to the seriousness of Java. Useful for every single tested having no experience with coding but willingness to start coding from a scratch.
Saved by Antifragile - A Story of Networked Learning
Sami Söderblom - TeliaSonera Finland, Finland
How antifragile models have been deployed into TeliaSonera Finland, one of the biggest compamies in their small nation. Everything resolves around "tribes" who make progress in their respective fields of interest; some are immersed in legacy environments, waterfalls and something as trivial as communication challenges while some have gotten the privilege to progress initiatives such as IoT, cloud platforms and healthcare solutions using more contemporary work methods.
The presentation is available online here:
https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/saved-by-antifragile-by-sami-soderblom
Hewlett-Packard
Accenture
Smart Bear
CA Technologies
LeapTest
Applitools
TransWare
GameBench
GreenSQA
Hiptest
... and others
From the networking perspective, I was really glad to have the opportunity to meet and spend some time with 4 my colleagues from the office in Brussels, Anne-Francois, Isabelle, Johan, Marc, I'll look forward to seeing you again soon either in Brussels or in London. Perhaps we'll work one day on a project, who knows.
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| Test Lab provided opportunity to meet new friends and to learn something new outside our day to day work life |
I had great impression of the testers from Finland. As the testing community there is relatively small (population of Finland is about 5.5 million), the people know each other quite well and like to organise frequently events for knowledge sharing or just getting to know each other. And they are actually very passionate about the work they do and enthusiastic too. I can imagine I could learn quite a lot from those guys. One of them, his name was Anti, told us how he listens a track and puts his hands up every day before he starts with the testing work. This is just to get to the winning spirit, shall I try the same?
About my selection of the tutorials, I tried to choose both technical/process and soft-skills oriented, of course one of the key factors was also to choose something which I could use in my day to day work now or in a near future. Selection was pretty big actually, I chose following.
>>> 31/10/2016
Tutorial A | Metamorphosis - Moving to Agile and staying Agile
Fran O'Hara - Inspire Quality Services, Ireland
Tutorial about learning from the experiences of what works and what does not when transitioning to agile. Focused on the quality and and test perspective. It also covered how to maintain and improve the level of performance after the initial transition to ensure the benefits achieved are sustained and long lasting.
Topics included:
- Cultural/people issues such as a self-organisation issues and lack of whole team thinking
- Inappropriate hybrid implementations of Scrum and agile technical practices
- Key topics to emphasise for further sustaining and improving test related performance include effective automation strategies, refactoring approaches for automated tests, user stories sizing, full integration of tests into the agile lifecycle, infrastructural mechanisms to share good practices among teams and tooling strategies.
etc.
>>> 01/11/2016
Tutorial I | Stay Sharp - Games to Engage and Enthuse your Testers
James Lyndsay - Workroom Productions Ltd
Do bored testers make bad testers? Are interested testers more observant and more innovative? Do they find more innovative bugs? This workshop was meant to be for everybody who answered "Yes" to the 3 question above. Workshop was split into several group exercises, 20 minutes long each.
Some of the exercises were:
- Exposure of the differences in working style between engaged and bored testers and building a collection of ways that can keep everyone in a team interested
- Incentives for cognitive work, attempts to introduce competition and game-playing into testing, followed by the resourcefulness and innovation for testers
- Discussion and experimenting with the range of changes that can introduce novelty and diversity to our test focus and test approach
etc.
Want to see more, check the James's personal website -> http://staysharp.workroomprds.com/
... List of another interesting sessions I attended during the remaining days:
Two Generations on Software Testing - The Way We Learn
Christian and Gitte Ottesen - Systematic A/S, Denmark
This tutorial was lead by mother and son, they both represented two generations - as a family and as testers. Based on their individual journeys, they took us through different ways of learning; what worked, what did not, thoughts and expectations about how to learn and develop their craft in the future.
How We Learned to Love Quality and Stop Testing
Sally Goble - The Guardian, UK
Stories from the Guardian's QA team (successful and otherwise) about adopting a holistic approach to quality and the experiments and the lessons learned in their adventure to ditch conventional approaches to testing.
How this Tester Learned to Write Code
Joep Schuurkes - Mendix, Netherlands
Successful story about how this person learned himself to write a code. In his story it started with command line (where-else) and continued via shell scripting and VBA (the horror, the horror) to the seriousness of Java. Useful for every single tested having no experience with coding but willingness to start coding from a scratch.
Saved by Antifragile - A Story of Networked Learning
Sami Söderblom - TeliaSonera Finland, Finland
How antifragile models have been deployed into TeliaSonera Finland, one of the biggest compamies in their small nation. Everything resolves around "tribes" who make progress in their respective fields of interest; some are immersed in legacy environments, waterfalls and something as trivial as communication challenges while some have gotten the privilege to progress initiatives such as IoT, cloud platforms and healthcare solutions using more contemporary work methods.
The presentation is available online here:
https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/saved-by-antifragile-by-sami-soderblom
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