Oleksandra Kovaleva, Testing Consultant In Softengi, Spoke At The Anti-Conference For Testers

On January 9th, 2015 St. Petersburg hosted “Tales for testers – 2″, an anti-conference for testers, in which Oleksandra Kovaleva, Testing Consultant in Softengi, participated with the report.

The anti-conference format implies that each participant is a speaker as well. Thus, each participant is involved in what is happening at the event.

Oleksandra Kovaleva took part in the anti-conference with the report “Holy War Detected: certification of testers.”

Oleksandra:

“The main message of the speech was to consider certification as a useful thing in some areas of testing (performance, usability, security, and so on.) And take the best from it what can be useful in work.”

Not boring conference = not boring photos 

The day after the anti-conference Oleksandra had her own workshop “Planning of testing efforts”, which refers to the methods of efforts’ assessment, implementation of planning, and solving practical problems.

Speakers

The organizer of the anti-conference, Alexey Fedorov, spoke about “Bugs that I see, bugs that others see.” Alexey is known in the testing world by his innovative approaches to work. This time, he spoke about the “layers” of application, interface and features, and bugs that can be found in them.

Katya Kirillova talked about personal planning with the help of “Wheel of Life” technology, taken from the “Extreme Time Management” book. According to this technique, every human life is divided into eight areas, each of which is marked on the wheel and then assessed on a scale. The technique helps to assess life satisfaction and understand what needs to be corrected to reach the harmony and fullness of life. It takes 15 minutes, but the effect can be invaluable.

Sergey Kotlov talked at the anti-conference about unusual companies which were able to change the management system, motivation and approach to completing tasks. Among the examples cited was even the French factory manufacturing transmission elements, as an example that not only IT companies are innovative in their approach to work.

Julia Atlygina in her report “Testing in Atlassian” talked about the testing of products in this company. The story was interesting, both because the company’s products are used in most IT companies, and because the audience was shocked to learn that the company has a total of five testers and products are tested not by them, but by the developers.

Sergey Kushnir presented a classification of schools and their features. Thus, according to his theoretical classification there are schools:

• Analytic School
• Standard School
• Quality School
• Context-Driven School
• Agile School

The format of the conference was invented by Tim O’Reilly, who was fond of computer programming and created his O’Reilly Media company, planning to change the world, spreading knowledge about innovation in unbanal way.

So were invented anti-conferences, or barcamps as it was originally called in English, in which each participant is both an organizer and a visitors, which just does not give an opportunity to be a passive listener.

The task of anti-conference is to make the event as interesting as possible for each visitor, so the condition of entry is making your own report, or bringing a speaker with you.

Source: Softengi