Time : 3 – 5 pm GMT (3-4 Testing and 4-5 Debriefing)
Mission :
You are contracted by three stakeholders to evaluate URL shortening services. The stakeholders are
• A heavy twitter user tweeting a lot of internet references over the day
• A university student wanting to share stuff from his homework/courses over the internet with his fellow students
• An online magazine publisher for referencing further readings on the internet
The pre-selection already has taking place and the most promising products are
• http://tinyurl.com
• http://bit.ly
• http://3.ly
• http://is.gd
• http://tr.im
• http://stnx.at
Evaluate the products for their applicability for the given users and report any problems the mentioned stakeholders may run into.
Participants :Annabaik, Ajay Balamurugadas , Markus Deibel ,Markus Gartner, Jaswinder Kaur Nagi ,Phil Kirkham, Tony Bruce
My Views:
I was quite apprehensive, as I had already delayed in joining EWT session, only 35 minutes were left and the mission seemed to be huge at least to me when I read it.
I did a Google search to find information related bugs/issues found in such URL shortener websites but then I stopped after 5 mins, reason- we all know how addictive “Google Search” can be, I felt once I start searching using Google, I will be drawn towards reading the results and more results and spend time in searching.
Time was ticking, so I decided to test URL to find any bugs/issues and I did find some. The bugs were reported at http://www.bugrepository.com/
At 4 pm (GMT) the Testing was stopped to start the Debriefing session, in which each of us shared our views about how we felt about the mission, the approach we used and lessons learned.
Are you finding this interesting then please read our Chat Transcript posted here.(Transcript courtesy: Markus Gartner)
Wonderful Quotes from this session :
There is 'no solution' - most testing answers are 'it depends' by Phil Kirkham.
Just like there is NO 'Best Practice', there is no ONE Right solution by Ajay Balamurugadas
I also look at all the participants here and think "I'm not worthy! These people are all so accomplished!" :) Then I think "great, what good company to learn a lot in" by Annabaik
Happy Reading
Related Links
EWT04 – Battle of the URL Shorteners
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3 comments:
your chart transcript link is broken... it seems
Shrini
Hi Shrini,
I checked at my end ,the Chat Transcript opened for me using the link provided
Thanks,
Jassi
"Just like there is NO 'Best Practice', there is no ONE right solution."
Weinberg refers to it in "Becoming a Technical Leader" as the number three obstacle to innovation:
"belief in the central dogma of academic psychology, blinding you to alternative solutions, even ones you could generate without help from anyone else"
The point of the context-driven school is indeed that there are good practices in some context, but no best practices for software testing.
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