QUALITY LEADER

THE CHANGING ROLEOF SOFTWARE TESTER

by ANNA ROYZMANPNSQC 2014

AGENDATHE NEEDTHE ROLETHE SKILLSTHE FIT

THE TREND

HOW TO ORGANIZE ?

MY THEORYSelf-organizing team needs

MY THEORYSelf-organizing team needs:–A person fully versed in testing

strategies

MY THEORYSelf-organizing team needs:–A person fully versed in testing

strategies–Who has the skills to facilitate

testing activities and learning

MY THEORYSelf-organizing team needs:–A person fully versed in testing

strategies–Who has the skills to facilitate

testing activities and learning–With the end goal to transform each

team member into the quality advocate so that the team can succeed in delivering high value products

SKILLS

Self-evaluation exercise

WHAT IS TESTING?

A PROCEDURE a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner

Synonyms: course of action, line of action, plan of action, policy, series of steps, plan, method, system, strategy, stratagem, way, approach, formula, mechanism, methodology

A PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINEknowledge or a concentration in one academic field of study or profession. A discipline incorporates expertise, people, projects, communities, challenges, studies, inquiry, and research areas that are strongly associated with academic areas of study or areas of professional practice.

CROSS-DISCIPLINE COLLABORATION

INTERACTIONAL EXPERTIZEExchanges across disciplinary boundaries can also be carried out with the help of an agent: a person who is familiar enough with the language of two or more cultures to facilitate trade. (Collins & Evans, 2002).

LEVELS OF EXPERTISEby Harry Collins

• “Beer mat” knowledge. Knowing simple facts about an area. Featured in trivia games like Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?.

• Popular Understanding. Expertise that can be developed by reading popular accounts of a particular domain (such as popular science magazines)

• Primary Source knowledge. knowledge that is based on specialist publications that are written by practitioners for practitioners.

• Interactional expertise. The ability to converse expertly in more than one discipline without practicing one. Characterized by social interactions with the practitioners.

• Contributory expertise. Expertise of practitioner or scientist conducting researches on the subject.

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