BWT Chapter 20 had given us a great opportunity to discuss with Dr Cem Kaner regarding specifications based testing , it was awesome .Unfortunately I missed the second part of BWT due to the huge Power cut at my place But Thanks to Twitter , I received a Tweet by Ajay about the Europe Weekend Testing session and I jumped with joy, there’s more,Skype crashed and a great amount of time was wasted in uninstalling and reinstalling it , by the time I could join I had only 17 minutes. The Help feature was disabled .I tested the application for 17 minutes. I did find a couple to bugs but did not send my bug report ,I was late we were supposed to send in 11 minutes and also I wasn’t aware of the Report format, nor could ask due to time constraints and the bugs found were just 3.
I became a silent observer of the discussions happening later enjoying the questions, discussions and suggestions given, all stalwarts of Testing, wow. Right from questions like if asking to STOP testing was a trap, can we search for bugs already found using Google and whether Tester’s having DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE are helpful or not. Well looking forward to participating in more of these sessions, blogging more about them.
Lessons learnt:
• Remember the lessons learned and keep on applying them.
• It is okay to be a silent observer but be alert.
• Speak your mind out, I liked the way Maik asked questions in case he had any doubts.
• Have to learn to start preparing the Report as soon as Testing begins.
• Not to be panicky if unable to find a bug in the first few minutes.
• Try to explore the Application for a few minutes before starting to Test.
• Most important not to be hesitant to blog about it :)
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