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Enhancing Testing Skills by Unraveling Testing Puzzles

120-minute Workshop

Enhance your testing skills through engaging puzzles, critical thinking, and real-world scenarios. Develop resilience, collaboration, and confidence in your testing abilities.

Timetable

2:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Tuesday 25th

Room

Room E2+E3 - Track 5: Workshops

Collaboration & Communication Other

Audience

Everybody who wants to learn about how to learn or teach excellent testing skills.

Key-Learnings

  • Sharpen testing skills and tackle complex challenges through engaging puzzles and hands-on exploratory testing.
  • Encourage critical, creative, logical, and horizontal thinking for fresh perspectives on testing.
  • Learn effective collaboration, build resilience, and gain confidence through group discussions and exercises.

How you can learn or teach essential testing skills

Learning software testing skills can be challenging. The way to master complex activities is through hands-on, engaging, enjoyable experiences. Testing is not just about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions & collaboration. If all you have is a hammer, does everything start to look like a nail?

Join Tanja Vos & Huib Schoots for an engaging and interactive workshop where you, while solving fun puzzles, will learn fundamental testing skills.

This workshop is for anyone looking to sharpen their testing skills through a series of challenging and thought-provoking puzzles that mimic real-world scenarios, encouraging critical & creative thinking. The workshop will cover essential testing skills needed for exploratory testing such as questioning assumptions, dealing with ambiguity, analytical flexibility and pattern recognition, etc. 

Through hands-on puzzling exercises, engaging debriefs and group discussions, attendees will learn to approach testing challenges with a fresh perspective. By the end of the workshop, participants had fun, gained valuable insights and practical skills to apply to their daily testing activities. They will develop patience and perseverance, foster tolerance for the unknown, and build resilience and confidence when faced with unclear or incomplete information.

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your testing skills and connect with fellow testers in a fun and stimulating environment!

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