{"id":3788,"date":"2017-08-16T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itakeunconf.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:02:35","slug":"daniel-billings-experience-keynote-t-k-e-unconference-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itakeunconf.com\/testimonials\/daniel-billings-experience-keynote-t-k-e-unconference-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Billing’s experience as keynote at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blog post by Daniel Billing, keynote I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission. Thanks Dan for your active participation during the unconference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When learning new things, ideas, skills or exploring new perspectives, the image above reflects how I am feeling when I am trying to assimilate and process all the activities I take part in within the testing community. It\u2019s that beautiful and terrifying moment when you are flying and the sun is ablaze on the horizon. It\u2019s knowing you\u2019ve learned a lot, but there is so much left to learn. Perhaps a move one way or another will lead to failure, but as long as you are quick to learn from those mistakes you can be on a well-lit path again.<\/p>\n

Over the last month or so I\u2019ve been attending a few events, including\u00a0I T.A.K.E. Unconference<\/a>\u00a0in Bucharest, Romania,\u00a0Let\u2019s Test<\/a>\u00a0in Stockholm, Sweden and\u00a0Nordic Testing Days<\/a>\u00a0in Tallinn, Estonia. Each of these events offered something new and different for myself as a contributor to those events. However, it is the other aspects of what they provide that are important.<\/p>\n

I T.A.K.E. Unconference<\/h2>\n

I T.A.K.E\u00a0Unconference was my first time\u00a0giving a Keynote talk at\u00a0a conference. This was a huge honor not just to be asked to give a talk, but also the fact that it wasn\u2019t a testing conference. I T.A.K.E. Unconference is a developer conference. Every attendee is highly technical, lives and breathes the code they write and the tools they use<\/strong>. It made me realize that whilst I have spent a lot of time learning about security, there is so much else to learn. Especially about how developers learn\u00a0and work, and how applications are crafted.<\/p>\n

I spent hours talking about how to build good environments for testing using tools like Docker and Heroku<\/strong>, or exploring how developers think about testing<\/strong>. A lot of it is about unit testing, some of it is about automation. But there are a lot of developers who understand the value of good testing and want to work with testers to make it happen. There is a lot we can do better to support them in this endeavor. These are things we should be doing at Medidata\u2026testing cannot happen or exist in a vacuum.<\/p>\n

Yes, there were those that think the role of testing or testers is now defunct, where a technical person can achieve all things they need to on a project. It was interesting to be able to discuss and challenge some of that thinking, where a tester can be a specialist or advocate for testing on their project; rather than someone who executes tests, gathers test results and creates endless meaningless reports. I\u2019m not saying reporting is bad, just the doing the wrong reporting is bad, and unhelpful. It doesn\u2019t add value, nor does it explain to those who don\u2019t test what the value of the testing is.<\/p>\n

I T.A.K.E. is a hotbed of software craftspeople<\/strong>. People who want to build and develop great software for their customers and clients. The best talk I went to while I was there was one of the other keynotes.\u00a0Felienne Hermans<\/a>, of the Netherlands, gave a talk called:<\/p>\n

What is science? On craftsmanship for children<\/a><\/p>\n

This reflected on her approaches to teaching coding to children. Children learn predominately through play, exploring their environment, and asking questions. It\u2019s something that adults have largely forgotten how to do, or if we haven\u2019t has become more formalized. We\u2019ve turned play and learning into work instead. We can make our learning far more creative through events such as hackathons. We should review, model and landscape our applications inside the environment we are working in. Children do this far more naturally than (some) adults.<\/p>\n

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Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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