Some readers might wonder about the fact that I tweeted Lisa. Yes, the Lisa from the testing books. And yes, Janet was the other author.
Was this a typical case about courage? Nope.
If you would ask me, that I would use Twitter 5 years ago, then my answer would be: “No way”.
Today Twitter is my way to get updates from the testing community.
I want to stress that my tweet to Lisa is not about ‘Don’t fear your peer’.
I just grew.
Is it possible to find new ways of testing in a tester infected country like the Netherlands? Sure.
But there are already so many test methodologies and specialists.
So what?
Hark! The testing muses sing
[On the melody of ‘Hark! The Herald angels sing’ ]
An artist gets her or his inspiration from a muse. Some readers might think about a person, whose mere presence brings music or words in her or his mind.
For testing there are other muses. Do they sing Mozart? I do not know.
A muse like Lisa tweets. She writes.
Hark! The testing muses write
[On the melody of ‘Hark! The Herald angels sing’ ]
At this moment one muse Katrina is writing a book. The announcement led to great excitement in the testing community. And she blogs.
Read the stuff the muses wrote
[On the melody of ‘Hark! The Herald angels sing’ ]
I read posts from Maaret, a rather influential one. I read posts and books from Elisabeth, Alan, and Jerry.
I just grew.
An Appendix to Visual Testing
Last weeks I read some blogs, which I will incorporate in my workshop at TestBash NL. As you might have read, it is about visual testing.
I combined my thoughts and experiences with the ideas from blogs of my testing muses.
Now I am in the editing phase for my workshop: figuring out some logic in my slides, creating mind maps for structure, and using insights from sketchnotes.
It was and is a wonderful journey. (Hark! The muses co-create.)
Thanks for the invitation, Rosie and Huib. Other testing muses indeed.
I just grew.