Lessons in Software Testing - Bret Pettichord, Cem Kaner, and James Marcus Bach

Lessons Learned in Software Testing - Bret Pettichord, Cem Kaner, and James Marcus Bach

Name these testers: “Friendly tester”, “Testsidestory” and “Testhead”

Richard Bradshaw
Zeger van Hese
Michael Larsen

Who wrote: "tested = checked + explored"

Elizabeth Hendrickson (Explore it, page 6)

Who wrote "Essential Software Test Design" book?

Torbjörn Ryber

How many test cases are needed for full path coverage?

Impossible to tell without more information

A number of Let’s Test conferences so far?

3
4 is not correct

Thinking Fast and Smart - Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

He talked about serendipity at numerous testing conferences, but never on twitter.

Rikard Edgren

Who said: “I will no longer say test automation, I will not use those words,
except to make fun of people who do say test automation”?

James Bach - CAST 2014 keynote “Test Cases are Not Testing: Toward a Performance Culture”

Name three films with testing as plot/subplot

Any film with trying out technology, like:
Iron man
The Imitation Game
Bladerunner

Solve this:
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87

Name 5 keynotes speakers from previous years

2012: Michael Bolton, Scott Barber, Julian Harty, Rob Sabourin
2013: James Bach, Johanna Rothman, Scott Barber
2014: Jon Bach, Tim Lister, Steve Smith

Tacit or Explicit Knowledge - Colin Harris
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Tacit and Explicit Knowledge - Harry Collins

He created the “standard” tool for note taking during (exploratory) testing

Shmuel Gershon

Who said the following in Let’s Test Facilitators chat:

L as in Likable.
L as in Awesome (with an invisible L at the beginning :) )
L as in Laudable
L as in Libatious
L as in Luminary
L as in Logical
L as in Leader
L as in Lucid (at times)
L as in Limitless
L as in Ludicrous
L as in Lightsaber (I am a burning bright light that can cut you down)

Paul Holland, 14th april 2015, 16:35

What are six thinking hats?

Analytical, emotinal, critical
optimistic, creativity, moderator

Solve this in 3 minutes
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Name 3 speakers who speak/spoke at all 4 editions

Huib Schoots, Louise Perold, Scott Barber, Dawn Haynes

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Almost Impossible - Nassim Taleb

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Who has been nominated “Tester of the year” 8 times, but never won?

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Who said "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs,
but never to show their absence!

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Calculate allpairs for the following:
Operating systems: Win7, OS-X
Printers: HP, Epson, Canon
Paper: A4, A3

6

Albert and Bernard just became friends with Cheryl, and they want to know when her birthday is.
Cheryl gives them a list of 10 possible dates.

May 15, May 16, May 19
June 17, June 18
July 14, July 16
August 14, August 15, August 17

Cheryl then tells Albert and Bernard separately the month and the day of her birthday respectively.
Albert: I don’t know when Cheryl’s birthday is, but I know that Bernard does not know too.
Bernard: At first I don’t know when Cheryl’s birthday is, but I know now.
Albert: Then I also know when Cheryl’s birthday is.

So when is Cheryl’s birthday?

16th of July

What was on the name tag of Paul Holland at the first Let’s Test?

Paul Holland - USA

Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar - James Bach

Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion - James Marcus Bach

Together with who did Michael Bolton speak about Testing and Music at CAST in 2008?

Johathan Kohl

Who said:
"On a personal level, since I have been successful in testing, I feel an obligation to give something back to it. On a professional level, I have observed that, as engineering fields mature and as their products become more integrated into people’s lives, the risks associated with those products increase. Societies often respond to these risks with regulations. Professions such as law, medicine, and other types of engineering have been allowed to be mostly self-regulating, because they got in front of these risks, created qualification mechanisms, and developed ways to self-regulate effectively. I see developing...

Rex Black

Describe the threat model - STRIDE

Spoofing
Tampering
Repudiation
Information disclosure
Denial of Service
Elevation of Privilege

How old are prince and princess?

A princess is as old as the prince will be when the princess is twice as old
as the prince was when the princess' age was half the sum of their current ages

A. Princess is 30, Prince is 20
B. Princess is 30, Prince is 40
C. Princess is 40, Prince is 30
D. Princess is 20, Prince is 30
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C - Princess is 40, Prince is 30

What was the answer of 2014 evening "Leds & Buttons" testing challenge?

Tyler Durden