Yesterday’s Cambridge Lean Coffee was hosted by Chris George at Cambridge Consultants. Here’s a brief note on the topics that made it to discussion in the group I was in.
Can you quantify usability? Do you try?
- different for specialist, small-scale products vs consumer, large-scale products?
- do you really want quantification?
- Is Design Metrically Opposed?
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy
- suggestions included a/b testing, putting design or prototype in front of users
How to manage bug backlogs alongside sprints?
- very dependent on the context you’re working in
- don’t separate the bugs and other stories
- the tester should be trying to illuminate knowledge of the product
- … including project risks (like two managers with different goals) to the product
What makes you laugh when you’re testing?
- the discovery of the unexpected thing that exposes assumptions were made
- … examples included a configuration option which was only used in reporting the setting of the option itself; a performance metric reported in mega rather than milli units (against industry standard) which had been that way for years and not been noticed.
- … but not usually the discovery that some spec item under test isn’t implemented right
- aha! vs haha!
- the start of the planning process (but that’s an evil laugh to worry developers)
Should developers be testers?
- experiments at Atlassian: Quality at speed, Quality assistance.
- what it takes to make someone have pride in their work
- what does it mean to be a tester anyway?
- comparison with other professions – important work is tested (or checked?) generally. Isn’t it?
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