July 6 Meeting
Construx Software, 10900 NE 8th St Suite 1350, Bellevue, WA
Food & networking from 5:45 to 6:15 (pizza, salad, soda )
Announcements from 6:15 to 6:30
Presentation from 6:30 to 7:45
Q & A from 7:45 to 8:15
Doors close at 8:30
We start presentating earlier now to allow for questions within the 8:30pm meeting time.
The Truth of "Good Enough"
"Good enough" is a notion that helps you know when to go home for the day. It is also a notion that helps Release Managers know when it’s time to ship. It is a river that constantly flows through us -- the Force that binds us and surrounds us. But it, too, has a Dark Side. It has been adulterated to mean “substandard” as when a mechanic slaps duct tape on a dent and says “Good enough for government work.” Whatever the context, it is a black hole from which not even testers can escape. For example, a tester might marvel at the level of scenery detail in Microsoft Flight Simulator while another might complain that it is not detailed enough. Who is right? This talk is about how context affects expectations and evaluation – two things that we must all frame so that we (and decision-makers to whom we’re in service) can better decide what to do next.
Biography
Jon Bach is the Manager for Corporate Intellect at Quardev, Inc., an onshore test lab where he manages testing projects ranging from a few days to several months using rapid testing techniques. He is an ardent advocate of building test communities and testing cultures by serving as the speaker chairman for Quardev's public QASIG and speaker chairman for PNSQC 2011. He is best known for co-inventing Session-Based Test Management as a way to manage and measure exploratory testing, but he is also a published author ("Above the Clouds", 1993) and has two popular testing blogs ("Notes, Bugs, and Issues") at quardev.com/blog and jonbox.wordpress.com. He can be found on Twitter as @jbtestpilot.