Wednesday, April 29, 2009

First Question

Situation:
There is an empty House. One person goes in and a bit later two persons come out.

Explanations:
By Biologist: Procreation – amitosis, fission, (asexual) reproduction etc
By Mathematician: if one more person entered the building it would be empty again.

Your assignment:
How would a tester explain the situation?

What is this now ? Interrogation ?

No. This is my way of trying to help people to think a bit more.

What's the point ?
So the main goal is to widen the testers mind with extraordinary questions. And the winner gets a prize.

Is there on right answer ?
No, Actually the questions themselves are not as important than the journey to find the answer.

What kind of questions ?
Questions are various, covering all kinds of topics except testing.

What ? No testing questions ?
Yep. The point behind the question is closely related to testing.

So how is the prize awarded ?
In a weekly meeting the answers are discussed and the best on selected with popular vote.

And the idea behind question ?
I will explain my idea behind the questions after the discussion if it has not emerged already.

Why testers?
It could be anybody, but as I am a Test Manager in company my first priority is to help them
become better and better.

What kind of testing ?
I always refer to software testing when using the word "testing".

What kind of software do you test ?
We are mainly testing embedded software for different Audio-Video products.