Experience Report Live: Shifting Left Challenge with Gwen Diagram and Ash Winter
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Ash Winter
Tester & Co-Author
Gwen Diagram
Head of Engineering
Summary
This challenge is one of the Exploratory testing week challenges that get you thinking about and practising Exploratory testing. Our challenges offer activities for you to learn new skills and knowledge as well as practise Exploratory testing. Whether you are just starting out in Exploratory testing or looking to try out something new. We have the challenge for you.
Introduction
This challenge is called ‘Shift Left’ but what does that actually mean? From a practical perspective, it means we can expand our testing beyond just the product, and get involved with testing ideas, requirements, diagrams and discussions prior to the product being built. We can also use critical thinking to help catch issues early in development, dispelling assumptions and helping our team develop a shared understanding and improving the quality of the product. This activity is all about getting into that shift left mindset by using our exploratory testing skills to explore ideas and requirements.
Purpose
This challenge gets you using exploratory testing skills on more abstract artefacts. Such as requirements, diagrams and ideas.
Activity
For this challenge we would like you to:
- Download one of the attached User stories for this challenge
- Read through the User story and support information
- Write down a list of different questions you would ask to learn more about the User story
Some tips:
- Consider using techniques like 5 W’s and an H to come up with questions
- Pick a note taking tool that you like using to capture your questions
- Help one another out by sharing questioning techniques and tools in this Club thread
Ash Winter
Tester & Co-Author
Gwen Diagram
Head of Engineering
Gwen Diagram is a technology professional from Leeds who specialises in testing. She is an avid automation evangelist with a focus on testing complemented by repeatable build processes with monitoring. She has had varied roles throughout her career including Scrum Master at a Start Up, Engineering Manager at a bank and DevOps kid at a large Financial Services organisation. She is currently the Head of Engineering at Glean in Leeds.
As a strong believer in making the tech industry as open and punk as possible, she co-organises a twice yearly free day long testing conference called the Leeds Testing Atelier. She speaks regularly at local meet-up groups, Agile Yorkshire and Leeds DevOps, duels with creative types at events like the Tech Off, speaks internationally at conferences such as Nordic Testing Days in Tallinn and was the closing keynote at Agile on the Beach in Falmouth, UK in 2018.
Outside of work, you will usually find her hanging around a Natural History Museum somewhere in the world marvelling at how incredibly excellent dinosaurs are, feeding pigeons or ducks or obsessing over transport.
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