March 2013 QASIG Meeting

Anyone can be a test innovator – why not you?

Presented by: Alan Page, Microsoft

Testing Innovation For Everyone – slide deck

The software tester’s nature for system thinking, and for identifying problems and patterns makes them well-suited for innovation, yet few testers take the time to apply their skills and experience to this end. Successful innovation is not purely a matter of skill, intelligence, or luck. Innovation begins with careful identification and analysis of a problem, obstacle, or bottleneck; followed by a solution that not only solves the problem, but frequently solves it in a way that has widespread benefit – or in a way that changes the basic nature of the problem entirely.

Alan Page breaks down the cogs and wheels of innovation and shows examples of how some testers are applying game-changing creativity to discover new ways to improve tests, testers, and testing on their organizations. Problems, solutions, tips, tricks, and more are all on the radar for this whirlwind tour of pragmatic test innovation. Best of all, you’ll walk away knowing that anyone, especially you, can be a test innovator.

About our presenter: Alan Page is currently a Principal SDET (yet another fancy name for tester) on the Xbox console team at Microsoft, Alan has previously worked on a variety of Microsoft products including Windows, Windows CE, Internet Explorer, and Office Lync. He also spent some time as Microsoft’s Director of Test Excellence where he developed and ran technical training programs for testers across the company.

Alan is edging up on his 20th anniversary of being a software tester. He was the lead author on the book How We Test Software at Microsoft, contributed chapters for Beautiful Testing (Adam Goucher/Tim Riley) on large-scale test automation and Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation (Dorothy Graham/Mark Fewster). You can follow him on his blog (https://angryweasel.com/blog) or on twitter (@alanpage).

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