{"id":151,"date":"2010-06-21T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T04:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-06-21T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T04:51:55","slug":"its-a-big-world-of-testing-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/its-a-big-world-of-testing-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a big world (of testing) out there"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I talked about<\/a> some presentations I was involved with for internal audiences at Microsoft. Joe Strazzere<\/a> asked if I could share slides or elaborate, so here goes (on one topic at least).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never met Joe \u2013 but I feel like I know him a little. I interact with testers regularly that I\u2019ve never met. I take time every day to see what testers are doing, what they\u2019re trying, and what they\u2019re thinking. The problem is, that if you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re probably the same as me. You look beyond the walls of your job to discover new ideas about testing<\/em>. The talk I helped with (Joshua Williams actually ran the talk) was about looking outside the walls of Microsoft (or wherever you work) to discover what other testers were doing and what they cared about. The best testers I know have a passion for learning \u2013 but more importantly, they seek out new ways of learning, rather than just reading one source, or following the work of one test blogger or consultant.<\/p>\n

So \u2013 I gave them options. I talked about the testing stack exchange<\/a>, software testing club<\/a>, test republic<\/a>, and sqaforums<\/a>. I talked about Software Test & Performance\u2026I mean Software Test & Quality Assurance magazine and Better Software. We have a license for the IEEE Explore site, and I unveiled the world of academic papers on testing (and above all stressed the importance of critical thinking when attempting to suck down this info). I tell a story sometimes about the first testing book I read. It opened my eyes \u2013 after reading it, I felt like I knew everything (I was too naive to challenge it). I read a second book on testing and noticed that it contradicted the first book sometimes. It wasn\u2019t until I read my third (and fourth, fifth, sixth and more) that I began to form my own opinions about testing<\/em>. Forming your own opinions \u2013 rather than just repeating what others say, is something I value tremendously in testers I work with. I also gave a nice plug to weekend testing<\/a>, as the movement is all about learning and testing.<\/p>\n

We also talked about open source. We\u2019re not big adopters of oss at Microsoft, so a lot of people don\u2019t know much about what\u2019s out there. I said what I could without pissing off our lawyers too much.<\/p>\n

That was pretty much it. There were some good tangents in the discussion section. Somebody was disappointed that we just didn\u2019t tell<\/em> them what was happening in the industry (you\u2019re missing the point<\/em>), but I hope we at least opened a few people\u2019s eyes to the world<\/span> of testing.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re reading this, this post probably isn\u2019t for you \u2013 but get your coworkers (just the one\u2019s you care about should be fine) to look beyond their little part of the world to learn. It\u2019s a big world of testing out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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