1.
Utter Failures and
Lessons Remained
Unlearned

2.
Who am I?

3.
Ilari Henrik Aegerter
Manager Quality
Engineering Europe
@

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Ilari Henrik Aegerter
President of
www.commonsensetesting.org

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What is failure?

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fiasco, debacle, catastrophe, di
saster, flop, washout, dead
loss, snafu, loser, underachiev
er, crash, collapse, bomb, aban
don, betray

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The Happy Path

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1. Do (or don’t do) something
2. It becomes a huge success
3. The Nobel prize committee is
on the phone for you

10.
Is that how things usually
happen?
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Who here has ever failed?

12.
It is (sometimes) ok to fail

13.
“The best way to recover from
failure is to learn from it”
- Pradeep Soundararajan, during today’s coffee break

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Paths of failures

15.
The thing you do
satisfies your own (or
somebody else’s) criteria
for success to some
degree

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fail
fail

17.
fail

18.
Personal
vs.
Corporate
vs.
Community
Failures

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Personal Failures

20.
Not to learn something that
would be helpful for the job

21.
Not to work on relationships

22.
Cultivate an “us vs. them”
mindset

23.
Be a pedantic asshole

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Personal Failures
Possible Reasons

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Incompetence
Lack of priority (NOT time)
Fear
Motivation/Procrastination
Underestimating effort
Halluzination
Zombie Apocalypse

27.
Corporate Failures

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Not to develop an
understanding of what
software testing is and what
it isn’t

29.
Systematically hire the
wrong people

30.
Rely on ridiculously useless
certifications

31.
Over-reliance on secondary
work products
(Absence of evidence != Evidence of absence)

32.
Corporate Failures
Possible Reasons

33.
Maybe we don’t speak up
No relationship to C-levels
Few testers are managers
Zombie Apocalypse

34.
Community Failures

35.
Overestimate our
importance

36.
Peer certification without
concrete evidence

37.
Not every good puzzle
solver is a good tester

38.
Not to build relationships to
C-level decision makers

39.
Allow worthless certification
scheme dealers as
sponsors of some of our
conferences

40.
Community Failures
Possible Reasons

41.
Lack of leadership
Halluzination
Wrong concept of “evidence”
Lack of sufficient lobbying
Zombie Apocalypse

42.
The questions that
bother me most

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1.
How can we effectively
influence decision makers to
a) develop a sound
understanding of testing
and
b) hire testers accordingly?

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2.
How do we massively grow
this community to become the
reference of how excellent
testing is done

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alright

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Thank You!

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Open Season
www.ilari.com
myself@ilari.com
@ilarihenrik

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