Date: 12th June 2010
Time: 15:30 – 17:30 GMT
Mission:
This morning (or whatever it is where you are), we’re going to go quite some distance out on a limb. I’ve provided a link to a file that you can download and listen to. There’s a streaming version of it at http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/#episode13 (please DON’T start listening just yet.) It contains an interview, an episode in a radio series that I’ve been talking about for a long time, called How To Think About Science.
Listen to the recording. Take notes on what you’re hearing, with the goal of capturing lessons from the interview that might usefully influence how we test, and how we think about testing. Stories or patterns from your own testing experience that you can relate to something in the interview are especially valuable.
Testers: Jeroen Rosink, Thomas Ponnet, Ian McDonald, Artyom Silivonchik, Richard Robinson, Ken De Souza, Dr. Meeta Prakash, Jaswinder Kaur Nagi, Ajay Balamurugadas, Michael Bolton, Markus Gärtner, Anna Baik
Michael Bolton facilitated the discussion afterwards.
Richard Robinson claimed that tool usage for fishing and testing was similar. They start to create waste, and over time fish and bugs get smarter at hiding in places the tools no longer catch. The testers discussed the whole list of analogies to testing the fishing reports from New Newfoundland had. Among them the topics of certification, management, and wrong models were discussed.
The session transcript can be found here.
Pradeep Soundararajan is a well known tester in the Testing World. Pradeep is a Test Consultant, Coach, Speaker and Mentor to many testers across the world. He is also the Author of 
I put my thoughts into a blog which can be found at
Once more with the real address as the link didn’t seem to work.. http://observanttester.blogspot.com/2010/06/ewt22-how-to-think-about.html