Nov 6, 2012 - 2 minute read - Conferences Eurostar Evil Tester

The List' Unconventional Influences - Eurostar 2012

I have written up a model of my “Unconventional Influences” keynote from Eurostar 2012, it has the times when I think I should have mentioned certain things, and it has links to references that I hopefully referred to, at the time when I scheduled the reference.

It may not make sense out of context, but if you attended then this may help you follow up on the sources of my influences.

17:00 My Eurostar 2012 “Unconventional Influences” talk should start about now
17:01 Here comes a minute by minute predictive summary and influences list
17:02 I have unconventional “Unconventional influences” and conventional “Unconventional influences”
17:03 I have changed the way that I think about, talk about, learn about, and do; software testing.
17:04 Everyone has a personal test approach.
17:05 When I started in testing I did everything ‘right’, but I made one big mistake
17:06 I left my critical thinking and skepticism at the door
17:07 by DrFaustusAU http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Cover-276564815
17:08 Humans can hold multiple belief systems so that the real world never has to interact with the work world
17:09 Software Testing does not exist
17:10 We made up Software Testing, we can continue to make it up
17:11 I have some Unconventional Influences, that have influenced me Unconventionally in Unconventional ways
17:12 http://www.forteantimes.com/
17:13 http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Fort-Man-Invented-Supernatural/dp/B001LRPTEI
17:14 The works of Charles Fort http://www.resologist.net/
17:15 Monstrum http://www.amazon.com/Monstrum-Wizards-Tale-Tony-Shiels/dp/1905723555
17:16 Despite what you see here, I work in the real world
17:17 I care because I want people to manifest their potential
17:18 ASSAP http://www.assap.ac.uk/prof/prhome.html
17:19 http://www.maglite.com/product.asp?psc=6DCELL
17:20 http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=ghostbusters
17:21 http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/htmlfiles/Investigations%20vigils.html
17:22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fads_and_Fallacies_in_the_Name_of_Science
17:23 http://www.generalsemantics.org/
17:24 The Map is not the Territory
17:25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
17:26 http://www.compendiumdev.co.uk/eprimer/eprimer.php
17:27 I can tell you want I do. I won’t tell you what software testing ‘is’
17:28 Build your own web of influences. Use the Bibliography and the Biography.
17:29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avenger_%28character%29
17:30 http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REQVAR.html
17:31 http://www.flowmap.com/documents/vsm.pdf
17:32 I tell people what I plan to do, and why, then we can agree how to label it
17:33 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
17:34 http://www.ernestrossi.com/mhe-ccc/Burden%20of%20Responsibility.pdf
17:35 work from first principles
17:36 http://blog.eviltester.com/2011/10/build-your-own-model-of-software-testing-or-rediscover-one-from-several-thousand-years-ago.html
17:37 Feedback, Feedback, Feedback
17:38 Responsibility, Responsibility, Responsibility
17:39 Your influences will help you if you trust them
17:40 Add the unique value that only you uniquely can