The icing on the cake, they wanted their testers to progress towards becoming brainual testers.
A group of 30 testers were introduced to me and I spent time for a couple of weeks with them on various activities. We ended up doing so many good things together that we accomplished the mission together. There were plenty of great work that they did. Now, those 30 have been successful in inspiring 30 more and this chain reaction is appearing to happen. If it goes on, I am sure this organization is going to rock in the coming years.
Somebody impressed with how I mentored these 30 asked me, "Aren't you giving away all secrets of how testers in Moolya test?", to which I replied, "There is no secret. This is how we test and this is how we live". There is nothing to hide. We don't have any secret ingredient or a secret ingredient soup unlike many services companies. We have watched KungFu Panda and hope you too have watched it. We focus on our skills. Our website tells that story.
In this post, I want to highlight the creativity that came out of the exercises of Brainual Testing.
Rrajesh Barde surprised me that he had been reading my blogs ever since I started it and he told me he had also commented on it. I was glad to meet my oldest (well, he's pretty young) blog reader. The only question I asked him was, "Was it worth your time?"
This guy turned out to be hyper creative. He had a sense of humor, lateral thinking, passion to test, leadership and creativity. We were brainstorming of how do we educate testers without letting them know they are educated. Of course, books are boring to most. What content do we feed them with? We discussed on Andy Glover's Cartoons for it. However, that didn't solve the problem of testers within their organization being able to see Andy working with them.
So, Rrajesh Barde in the meeting interrupted, "If I may, I have an idea..." and then came out with this brilliant idea of TASTRO - Testers ASTROlogy. In a country like India, a lot of people refer to Astrology. They at least want to read if there is something good in it for them. I thought that was a brilliant idea and we had to develop it further. We needed to mix fun and pun into it. We needed the learning touch. We needed people to look forward to their weekly TASTRO.
Here is what we got:
TASTRO – Tester’s Astro – What do your test
signs foretell?
Isn't this awesome? I feel testers like Rrajesh Barde are a huge boon to our industry. The beauty of my consulting was, I felt there wasn't just one Rrajesh Barde I met but many. I may cover about others in future posts.
A couple of years ago, I used to go to a consulting assignment as though I am superior and I consult people because they were inferior. These days, I go to consulting to get humbled by people like the ones I met.
Please, everybody, stretch out your creativity, you would find an Andy Glover or Rrajesh Barde in you. For those who want to follow Rrajesh's blog, here is the link. He came out with another concept called Bug Burji (Burji is a dish made out of Egg and we call it Egg Burji, Rrajesh made a Bug Burji out of it). Rrajesh, you inspire me. I hope after reading your work, a couple of others may join me in admiring your work and contribution.
I am telling myself that I was born to witness this beginning of the golden era of software testing. Don't know if you can even see what I am experiencing.
Well done Rajesh. Could not find a way to contact him via his blog. I though we could ask him to use his creative skills for Testing Circus Magazine.
ReplyDeleteWe all are born to witness this beginning of the golden era of software testing in India.
@Ajoy,
ReplyDeleteThat would be a smart move. I shall email and connect you both.
Another good blog. :) Inspiring me to give new ideas. I have been reading this blog the day i started testing. Eventually, I am reading the best blog.
ReplyDeleteGood post.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if we can solve the problem of:
"that didn't solve the problem of testers within their organization being able to see Andy working with them"
@Andy,
ReplyDeleteSmart guy. Well, actually, we did solve it. "Andy" was a metaphor there rather than noun.
BTW, there is an Indian IT company wanting to hire you in future and you know them? They are called "Moolya" :)
Interesting idea....
ReplyDeleteDid any client ask you to predict number of bugs that would be encountered in first three months of production?
BTW -- those cute diagrams mean? I am sure Rajesh and Moolya can come out with interpretation of the diagrams.
On seeing the diagrams, I am first tempted to interpret them.
Shrini