Rikard Edgren, Spotfire, SwedenRikard Edgren, 36 years old with an educational background in Philosophy and Music. Started the career in software testing in 1998 by working with Microsoft on localized versions of their software. Has worked the last eight years as test lead and project manager at Spotfire, a producer of interactive visual data analysis software. The presentation about creativity received very positive feedback at EuroSTAR 2007.
Where Testing Creativity GrowsSoftware testing is a lot more than comparing a product with its explicit requirements.
To reach the vital information for a project, testers need to use their creativity in different ways; in order to learn things, pinpoint functionality gaps, and expose implicit (non-)functional requirements.
Building a generous environment with trust and tolerance will enable creative ideas; and besides common methods like pair testing, brainstorming, Six Thinking Hats and mind mapping; approaches like analogy, cinema testing, "the opposite-method", provocative operators etc. can inspire your creative mind.
It will in addition be even more fun to work with software testing.
