Michael Bolton’s Hamilton Inspired Rap about the current state of testing, From TestBash Manchester 2017.
Transcript: so what happens when your family becomes obsessed with the musical Hamilton you end up with something like this help me out okay that's a little fast I'm an old you know I'm not a natural rapper but I'm gonna try experimentation learning freestyle exploration studying and modeling conjecture observation test code development task prioritization testing out competitors preparing simulations formalized reporting to comply with regulations gathering assessing and applying information deliberation judgment designing visualizations setting up the lab to try complex configurations working out the problems in a puzzling situation finding ambiguity in a product specification trying to look beyond the predicted expectation well that's cos testing is all about investigation questioning and learning playful product interaction trying to keep my focus while on managing distraction since making miss miss breaking decisions make no faking stressing out the product to discover where it's breaking interrupted disrupted because the products full of bugs the fellows who developed it must have been on drugs refining test approaches through deliberate practice how could hackers hack this don't give them access wrestling with problems in the setup of environments interviewing users to discover their requirements so I shall socialize to provoke collaboration other folks can help me with my testing preparation talking with the managers to learn what biga require testing for charisma that's what customers desire working with the marketers to show the apps PowerPoint to all the features try to finish in an hour selecting configuring and then applying tools remembering critical thinking confirmation is for fools refactoring at every step keeping things maintainable let's get over overtime and make the pig sustainable building coverage models analyzing risk and laminating waste trying to keep the pace brisk pattern recognition distributed cognition helping shy colleagues get over inhibition but I want to say this while I'm in a rap rhythm that checks a part of testing encoded in algorithm testings much more than automated checks and test cases human variation puts a product through its paces talk and manual testing will keep our craft stuck but testers keep referring to it I say what the use the tools powerfully that's what I'm suggesting but don't try to tell me you can automate the testing [Applause] [Music]
Presented by Ministry of Testing