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The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1

Leonidas Hepis and Benjamin Segebartt

In these digital pages you'll find insightful vignettes reminding us that there are humans behind even the most technological industries. This book contains perspectives and first-hand experiences from members of the South African software testing community. A glimpse of what’s meaningful to the people on the other side of the keyboard.

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The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1 is a compilation of short stories, poems, and vignettes offering perspectives from software testers who attended the Let's Test South Africa 2016 context-driven testing conference, held just outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ranging from funny to sad, angry to enthusiastic, assured to inquisitive, every entry rings with the voice of the author who penned it. Leonidas Hepis and Benjamin Segebartt coached the authors on Seven Keys to Insightful Writing, a set of attitudes and exercises to bring every writer's wisdom onto the written page. The resulting vignettes were assembled within a day into this book, now available here.

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Leonidas Hepis

Benjamin Segebartt

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter 1 - Realisations

Correctness, Quality, Zero Defects

Going Into Battle

Retrospective

Keep Doing, Stop Doing, Start Doing

Automation

It's Hard Not to Care

Stand on a Chair

Consider These

Metrics

Constantly Questioning

Chapter 2 - This, Too, Happens

Danger

Happy Customers

The Hand-Me Down Tester

The Deep Irony of Certification

Costly Automation

Interrogation Interview

Anybody But Somebody

Magic

He Said She Said

Chapter 3 - Cultivating a Better Approach

Feedback

Feelings, The Reliable Bug Detectors

Testing is Testing - A Sketchnote

Not Just Working Together

Lizard Brain

Collaboration

Perfectly Imperfect

Turn Testing Around

Elevating The Conversation

Values To Empathy

Keep Your Shirt On - A Sketchnote

Learning While Doing

Fresh Value

Games

One-Up Your Test Game - A Sketchnote

Conflicts

Modeling Reality

Connections in Context

On Writing About Testing

On Turning and Transformations

A Treasure Island, No Map

Chapter 4 - Value of Testing

From an Outsider

Tester Currency

Blame

We Test All Sorts of Things

Does He Bite

In Between Lines of Code

Interrogation

Epilogues

Afterword

Contributors

About the Contributors

Henrik Andersson

Scott Barber

Matthew Broadley

Cindy Carless

Oz Chihwayi

Clare Forson

Paul Holland

Ina Joubert

Chris Lawson

Christopher Linnell

Jody-Lee Loubser

Regina Martins

Gerald Mücke

Belinda Ndlovu

Paul Lloyd

Joanne Perold

Louise Perold

Danie Roux

Barry Tandy

Trevor Wridgway

Jemma Wright

Karen Greaves

Samantha Laing

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Shine Literacy

Shine Literacy

Words can change worlds

http://www.shineliteracy.org.za
Shine Literacy is a non-profit organisation that seeks to improve literacy outcomes for young children from disadvantaged communities in South Africa. Working in partnership with teachers, volunteers and parents, our evidence-based programmes provide effective and sustained support to children as they learn to read and write, helping to foster a life-long love of books and learning.
Shine Literacy is an award-winning leader in Foundation Phase literacy innovation in South Africa. Since its inception in 2000, Shine has taken an entrepreneurial approach to tackling the country’s stubborn and unacceptably low literacy rates. Focusing on developing the reading, writing and speaking skills of Grade Two and Three children from disadvantaged communities, Shine aims to support children to engage effectively with learning by the time they finish the Foundation Phase of schooling.

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