Chronicles Of Testing

20th Nov, Wednesday Anna Royzman and a team of volunteers hosted the ConTEST NYC conference in Nov 2019. http://testmastersacademy.org/ At the speaker's dinner, Anna shared her first experience of hosting the conference. Her experience helped me understand - there will be lows and highs careerwise, never give up, and continue to work towards the goal. 21st Nov, Thursday Derive Good Test Data from Production Data without Breaking Privacy Laws By Martin Boesgaard Martin presented a talk on 'Derive Good Test Data from Production Data without Breaking Privacy Laws' and how PII Guard can help anonymize, encrypt, and preserve the privacy and security of the test data. Deliberate Practice in Practice By Dwayne Green I met Dwayne at CAST 2014 conference held here in NYC. Dwayne is confident in his delivery and shared the need for everyday test practice and provided practical examples of how to do the same. I felt my presentation would be an extension...

Submitted the below problem statement as an abstract to speak at ConTEST NYC . Apart from gathering test ideas by referring to the requirements specification document, a new tester is at loss. What are our goto sources of test ideas? Why do we stop at the explicit sources of knowledge? How else can we testers/non-testers generate ideas to test? What has come to my rescue is being invested in learning from more than one source to gather test ideas. Diverging t o learn by observation, by questioning the requirements by donning the thinking hats, testing the design, implemented code, learning from all, and from different fields of study such as cognitive biases, prior experiences that a user and a tester has had testing in the same or similar domain helps to search and find ideas to test (by collecting information relevant to the application under test). W hat best way to learn than by asking relevant questions which translates to subjecting the application to tests that ...