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• Creating Great Storytelling to Enhance Software Testing ScenariosMay 15, 2013 - 4:54 pm

  Recently, I wrote about Using Storytelling Games in Software Testing, and pointed you to a paper by Martin Jansson and Greger Nolmark. Now I want to give you some tips on creating great storytelling for your testing projects. First of all, check out Cem Kaner’s work on Scenario Testing: An Introduction to Scenario Testing. I [...]

• Exploratory Test Adventures – Using Storytelling Games in Software TestingMay 5, 2013 - 11:21 am

  I love to see creative work from people in the industry, and Martin Jansson always impresses me with his insatiable desire to learn, to do better and to take risks with ideas to push the craft forward. While I have been looking at gamification lately, it was exciting to learn that he and his colleagues [...]

• Test Quests – Gamification Applied to Software Test ExecutionFebruary 4, 2013 - 10:26 am

  I decided to analyze a game feature, the “quest“, which is used in popular video games, particularly MMORPGs. Quests have some compelling aspects for structuring testing activitues. Jane McGonigal‘s book “Reality is Broken” provided me with a solid analysis of quests, and how they can be adapted to real life activities. Working from her example [...]