{"id":1003,"date":"2016-11-12T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T20:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2016-11-13T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:05:22","slug":"test-bash-smash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/test-bash-smash\/","title":{"rendered":"TestBash Smash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short story is that TestBash may be my new favorite testing conference. Great venue (no,\u00a0fantastic<\/em> venue), well-organized, and excellent variety and diversity across the different presentations. I was\u00a0reflecting\u00a0while walking the streets of Philadelphia this morning and realized that almost every talk was experiential – filled with stories of problem solving and discovery.<\/p>\n

For those who know me, let me put it this way.\u00a0I don’t think I rolled my eyes even once!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(except the time when Nancy\u00a0asked how many of us were context-driven testers).<\/p>\n

I also met so many people I’ve only known on twitter (so many, in fact, that I can’t list them), and a large handful of new people I follow now too.<\/p>\n

As for my talk, it seemed well received for a talk that (in title) could be scary to a lot of testers. Honestly, I don’t think the talk would have worked as well with a less sophisticated group of testers. It’s really easy to take an idea like testing without testers and look at it with no critical thinking and dismiss it entirely – but folks seemed to get how it\u00a0could<\/em> work (and I, of course, was unafraid to talk about how it can fail miserably.<\/p>\n

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“This is bullshit!” – yeah!! So glad to hear how removing testers sucks. @alanpage<\/a> #TestBash<\/a> Philly pic.twitter.com\/9TfNHcvAWX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 MelTheTester (@m_eaden) November 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I used a ping pong metaphor to describe the inefficiencies in typical test-dev relationships, and I hammed it up a bit figuring if I was going to look stupid, I’d go all in. It went a little \u00a0better than I expected, and I owe Angie Jones an apology:<\/p>\n

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Since @alanpage<\/a> was up right before I was, I asked him to not pull out his A game. He agreed but then proceeds to play ping pong on stage! ? https:\/\/t.co\/FsmIF0MyBM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Angie Jones (@techgirl1908) November 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n