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'Situational Leadership Styles On Test Approaches' by Wim decoutere & Michael Pilaeten

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David Kolb describes four different experiential learning styles: doing, experiencing, observing and planning. Each person has their own preferred learning style and none can be called best. To maximize the retention of what you’ve learned, you should actually run through all 4 stages, independent of which stage you used as a starting point. On top of that, you might not always use the same starting point, depending on the situation, your experience and the way you are guided in your tasks. Hersey and Blanchard have provided us with a model to describe how we can guide others. This model has four different leadership styles which are dependent on a person’s motivation and knowledge. Every manager and every managed person fits at least one style, be it telling, selling, participating or delegation. Again no style can be called best and styles may vary depending on the situation. It’s clear that every tester has its own preferred testing style. Some testers plan everything ahead, while others are fond of exploratory testing. Our own approach depends not only on our own preferences but also on other circumstances like our experience, the budget and the deadlines to meet. Can we draw any lines between David Kolb’s learning cycle and the different test approaches? Are agile, exploratory and structured testing, to name a few, different starting points in a testing cycle, like the learning styles in Kolb's learning circle? What would this testing cycle look like and could we conclude that it doesn't matter what approach you use because in the end, you've done them all? Should we conclude that no approach is best? And what is the role of the test manager in all this? Can we influence the testing style of our testers by changing the way we guide them, using Hersey and Blanchard’s model of leadership and guiding? And what guidance fits which testing approach best? In this presentation, we’ll dive into the theory of why a certain (test) approach might or might not work for you, and what should be the best management approach per test style.
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Page 1: 'Situational Leadership Styles On Test Approaches' by Wim decoutere & Michael Pilaeten

Wim Decoutere & Michaël Pilaeten

Situational Leadership Styles

On Test Approaches

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SOME WARMING UP

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What do YOU do?

You’ve done this before… You first read the instructions carefully You sort the box contents first You follow the instructions step by step

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KOLB’S LEARNING CYCLE

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Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

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Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Perceiving

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Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Thinking / Planning

Perceiving

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Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Applying

Perceiving

Thinking / Planning

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Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Doing

Perceiving

Thinking / PlanningApplying

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Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Doing Perceiving

Thinking / PlanningApplying

Test Manager ?

Test Analyst ?

Structured Tester ?

Test Manager?

Test Analyst ?

Test Tooler? Test

Executer?

Test Data Provider?

Unit Tester?

Agile Evangelist ?

Team Leader

Testing ?

Exploratory Tester ?

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Reflection

Abstraction

Experimentation

Discovery

Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Explorat

ory Testing

Error Guessin

g Reviewi

ng

Executin

g Test

Cases

Automat

ed Tests

TPI assessm

ent

Tool selection

Creating

Defects

Set up

Test Environm

ent

Go / No

Godecision

Writing

Test Cases

Writing

Test Plan

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LEADERS

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LEADERSHIP STYLESHersey & Blanchard’s

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ParticipatingTelling4 different leadership styles:

SellingDelegating

Leadership Styles

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Rel

atio

nshi

p fo

cus

Task focus

SellingParticipating

Delegating Telling

Leadership Styles

Junior

Testing

TeamOffshore

Hotfixes

UAT

Experienced

Testing

Team2nd release

Agile

approach

Exploratory

testing

New

manager

Senior

Testing

TeamTest

Manager

with

# projects

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WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?Conclusion

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SellingParticipating

Delegating Telling

Leadership Styles

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Discovery

Abstraction

Experimentation Reflection

Discovery

ReflectionExperimentation

Abstraction

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PLEASE TRY THIS AT HOME!

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Wim Decoutere – [email protected]

Michaël Pilaeten – [email protected] – @mpilaeten

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