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20. If we're talking about my testing role, I don't commission the painting; don't grab the brush from the artist; don't take undue credit.
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15. When I acknowledge that I help them prevent problems, I empower them; I acknowledge their roles and responsibilities respectfully.
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12. I must therefore establish my role and my commitments such that others *invite* my help, rather than me inflicting help on them.
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10. "Political humility" means acknowledging that I don't control the code, the product scope, the project, or people. I am not Authority.
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9. "Epistemic humility" means acknowledging that I don't know everything. I won't find every bug. Not everything I THINK is a bug IS a bug.
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7. I help teams to defend the value of products, discovering and alerting them to critical problems that they might not notice without me.
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5. By acknowledging (4) immediately, I want to avoid this question: "We've got *testers*; why are there still problems in the product?"
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4. I do have the capacity to experiment, explore, infer, imagine, inform, or advise. I don't have the power to mandate people to do things.
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3. As a tester, I can make people aware of problems in the product of project. I do not have the authority to make them fix those problems.
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2. When we are describing testing's value, we had better be clear on the extents and limits of what testing (and testers) can accomplish.
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1. Testing's value will never be /immediately/ clear to everyone, nor will everyone want testers as such. I believe we must accept that.
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26 Jan 2016
In order to stay teachable, adopt a beginner's mindset - open, interested, and free of prejudice.
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21 Feb 2016
Counting test cases is like counting these rocks except the rocks are invisible and you don't know how big they are
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10 Nov 2015
Once you realize that failure is certain, it's a lot easier to focus on impact instead. bit.ly/1HtM9e3
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The vital link between the tester and the artist: both help people become aware of things that they might not have noticed otherwise.
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Heuristic: if you choose your words more carefully before you use them for labels in your process model, you'll have less explaining to do.
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Testers: if you are naive or unskilled in a particular domain, ask for collaboration or competent supervision until you're trained. #testing
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