Tutorial

Become a critical thinker and save your projects from disasters

On the day before Swiss Testing Day you will get the chance to attend a tutorial with James Bach who is the opening Key Note speaker at Swiss Testing Day. In only one day you will learn how to improve your critical thinking skills to become a better tester and a project saver.

• The full-day tutorial will take place in Zurich on 13 March 2012.
• It will be an interactive, hands-on session with James Bach in English.
• Places are limited, and will be giving on a first-come first-serve basis.
• The cost will be 1’100 CHF.

The tutorial description in detail: CRITICAL THINKING FOR SOFTWARE TESTERS
Critical thinking is the kind of thinking that specifically looks for problems and mistakes. Regular people don't do a lot of it. However, if you want to be a great tester, you need to be a great critical thinker, too. Critically thinking testers save projects from dangerous assumptions and ultimately from disasters. The good news is that critical thinking is not just innate intelligence or a talent—it's a learnable and improvable skill you can master. James Bach shares the specific techniques and heuristics of critical thinking and presents realistic testing puzzles that help you practice and increase your thinking skills. Critical thinking begins with just three questions—Huh? Really? and So?—that kick start your brain to analyze specifications, risks, causes, effects, project plans, and anything else that puzzles you. Join this interactive, hands-on session and practice your critical thinking skills. Study and analyze product behaviours and experience new ways to identify, isolate, and characterize bugs.

James Bach was one of the expert witnesses in the case against Microsoft , who testified that decoupling of the operating system and Internet Explorer is quite possible.

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