Hiring testers, who love testing versus turning engineers into testers.

1. About Me
Kristel Viidik
From Estonia
Software Tester
Founder of Testlio
#lovetesting

2. Topics
Passion Matters
The Current State of Testing
Testing Isn’t An Afterthought
Nirvana

3. The Current State of Testing
Times are a changin’

4. The Current State of Testing
Waterfall is dying a slow death
Competition is growing
25% of IT budget goes to testing

5. The Current State of Testing
Who is responsible for testing?

6. The Current State of Testing
Testers!!

7. Passion Matters
…well ideally

8. Passion Matters
Testers are…
• Curious
• Incredibly communicative
• Super observational
• Technically smart

9. Testing isn’t an afterthought

10. Testing Isn’t An Afterthought
Developers…
• Tend to get attached
• Tend to not think about the big picture
• Lack real user perspective
• Want to create

11. Testing Isn’t An Afterthought
However there are some benefits…
• Can be better at step reproduction
• Informative bug reports
• They know the traps
• They’re incredibly technical

12. How do you find nirvana?

13. Nirvana
How to get to nirvana…
• Build teamwork
• Create goals together
• Understand their roles
• Integrate development and testing
• Quality is everyone’s responsibility

14. Thank you!