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Jesse Schell’s Lenses of Game Design and Testers
When I’m not doing my professional tasks, one of the things I like to do is to play board games- things like Puerto Rico and The Castles of Burgundy. From time to time, I’ve dabbled with the idea of...
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TAOGD Lenses: Lens #1 “The Lens of Essential Experience”
In the my earlier post, I talked about Jesse Schell‘s book, “The Art of Game Design”, promising to go lens by lens through the book. This is the first post looking at a lens. More to come!Jesse...
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TAOGD Lenses: Lens #2 “The Lens of Surprise”
This post is a continuation of the series examining the lenses of game design described by Jesse Schell in his book The Art of Game Design. Previous posts in this series can be found here. Surprise is...
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I believe…
We’ll resume the Art of Game Design series shortly (with a far smaller gap than between lenses #1 & 2), but first an interlude.I mentioned in the last post that I had recently done some training...
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TAOGD Lenses: Lens #3 “The Lens of Fun”
This post is a continuation of the series examining the lenses of game design described by Jesse Schell in his book The Art of Game Design. Previous posts in this series can be found here. Fun is...
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Geeks vs. non-geeks
I found the following quote from Ed Felten the other day on arstechnica (originally from this interview on SlashDot).The underlying problem, I think, is that geeks think about technology in a different...
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Interacting with conference speakers
I’ve spent this week attending the STAR East conference in Orlando. Johanna Rothman, who was also there, posted an entry in her blog encouraging people to attend conferences and get to know the...
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The Three-Year Plan
As I was driving home from Orlando one night, I had a revelation. When I came to grad school, I felt like I had no plan for the future after school was done. Graduation was this big brick wall and...
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Professional development
My wife and I were talking at dinner tonight and she brought up the question of how someone new to testing would find the various resources that exist to help testers grow professionally.I thought for...
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How to make up for missing learning styles skills
Another thing that Felder mentions multiple times in his papers are that while each person has preferred learning styles, succeeding professionally requires skills in all aspects (e.g., both visual and...
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Learning Styles Culture-based?
I’m doing a lot of reading lately on learning styles in preparation for a paper I’ll be presenting at PNSQC this fall (“Learning Styles and Exploratory Testing”). This (so far) has focused primarily on...
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Comments on learning styles
I’ve gotten a couple of email feedbacks on my learning styles posts, and I thought I’d post a quick note here, both to serve as a reminder to myself (since I’m focusing on finishing the initial draft...
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Off to Agile Fusion
Today I’m setting off for Agile Fusion in Front Royal, VA. A group of context-driven testers and a group of extreme programmers are getting together to learn from each other and figure out how the two...
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Agile Fusion Day 1
And we’re off (slowly). Today is arrival/setup day, so nothing big to report. Attendees so far:James BachLisa CrispinJohn ElrickMike FeathersMike HewnerBC HolmesDavid JonesCem KanerBrian MarickBret...
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Goals of Agile Fusion
After dinner, we began the process with introducing ourselves and discussing our goals for the next week. There’s a very good mix of programmers and testers here, and I’m even more excited about this...
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Plan for week
For the week, we’re going to split into two groups. One will work on extending RubLog, a Ruby blogging tool. The other group is going to work on updating/creating a computerized test for veterinary...
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Stories for the Veterinary project
I’m working on the veterinary project. Brian has talked to a person he knows who is involved in giving this test, and talked about what they’re looking for in this application. We then talked about the...
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Estimation
We talked about how we were going to estimate the various stories. We decided to do estimates in stream half-days (one or two people (since there’s 7 of us – Bill, Brian, Lisa, Chris, Mike H., BC, and...
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Iteration #1
This afternoon was spent doing iteration 1. Our initial task list was:Get people up to speed on RubyFITDetermine how to run FIT from within EclipsePerform a spike to determine feasibility of using the...
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Group discussion
Did some stories, did some code mining, did a feature walkthrough (so they know where they’re going). Talked about what scenario testing is and what the role of testing is on projects. They’ve already...
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