Release now, the joy you had and let it flourish

On stage for closing of #LetsTest2013

Perhaps you will forgive me if I turn from my own words to lyrics of a song:

It was fun being along - could it be forever long. I am saving thoughts of joy – inside of me.

Now remember, others saved - to go and share to you.

Release now, the joy you had and let it flourish

Listen to others, give them some - that for you have also come.

Not only hid the joyousness inside you.

If you try to herd  joy given - to keep it on your own.

It never comes around, when most you need it;

So when someone reaches out, share all you have around,

And surely joy and laughter is around you.

[The FDF songbook #75, my translation]

The 860 kcal bug

Simon 7yo made the sticks with space aliens.        The egg candy is flying saucers

One day I was typing in my personal measurements into my health tracker. I had to go do the weight and height and then I came back and entered them.  And I started running, burning 800+ kcal‘s every time. First thought, whatever – it’s probably right. But apparently it was awesome for running a few clicks in 20 minutes (said my wife). After some time I returned to the settings for a different reason and found:

Height	70 cm / 2.3 feet
Weight	180 kg / 374.8 lbs

No wonder I had burned some carb’s if I’d been running along with those numbers…. Bug / No bug ?

• Apparently 70 cm is a valid height – What would be an invalid interval? – What would be invalid input?
• Apparently 180 is a valid weight – What would be an invalid interval? – What would be invalid input?
• How many angry users will you get for hinting that their body details are invalid?
• Does it matter? – It didn’t matter to me (or I would have spotted it sooner, I guess)

Testing is like connecting the dots

there is more to it, than just following a script.

Very much related

Black or white – it is the same box

Fell in the trap of total coverage

It’s a matter of finding the pieces that make the picture

Seriously joking or joking seriously

Angry Birds Fødselsdagsløb

Regnorme Angry Birds Style

 Få angry birds øjenbryn 

Alle på Angry Birds løb skal have flotte øjenbryn. En til to streger i panden med ansigtsmaling. Hvilken fugl er du?

Spise regnorme

Fgule spiser regnorme – så det skal vi også. Det gør ikke noget der komemr lidt jord på regnormene. “Far – det er altså karamelsnørrer“.

Træningsbane rundt på legepladsen med en fugl i hånden

Lege “alle mine æg kom hjem” (grise fanger, fuglen der kalder).

Skyde med hoppebold mod griseborg

Skyde med slangebøsse mod grisene

griseborg

slangebøsse

Se også Pirat fødselsdag

LEGO segway and Friends

Untitled, a photo by jlottosen on Flickr.

Define: Snow plow testing in context

Imagine that the city has just have a ton of snow – a solid layer everywhere. The snow plows come out – first they take the highways, then the main roads, the bus roads, the side roads. They miss the private roads and pedestrian streets, but that’s OK - because they get the city started.

[ Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing: What You Really Need to Know | Michael Bolton | Nov 2011]

Both smoke testing and sanity testing refer to a first-pass, shallow form of testing intended to establish whether a product or system can perform the most basic functions.

Snow plow testing  is my usual way to avoid the Smoke test/Sanity test discussion. That is until I had to explain it to my Indian colleagues … they had never seen snow. For all they knew, it could as well have been the Black Viper Testing Technique.

We re-framed the activity to Test environment check - the early morning (Danish time) activity of taking the high-way scenarios in the system complex. Day after day it proved to be a very useful activity in many ways – all though it never cleared all the snow…

I didn’t open it

, a photo by jlottosen on Flickr.

She said “don’t open it right now”
She didn’t say “don’t build it”

Tips and tricks for community building

Do you have a Internet community, a group, a range of followers, a tribe - then you are probably doing a lot of community management. In the end there is really no difference if you do:

• Company product marketing community management,
• A community of freelance testers
• A community for LEGO fans
• An internal corporate social engagement platform

All are driven (mostly) on volunteers, advocates and participants making the leap from consumers to producers. Many of these communities needs nuturing by a community manager.But sometimes it’s hard to get an overview of what needs doing. It’s all community management, as illustrated by Hinchcliffe:

See also:

• Community Advocates: Your Secret Weapon in Going Global and Viral, By Claire Flanagan, CSC
• http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/community-management-the-essential-capability-of-successful-enterprise-20-efforts/913

That’s what friends are for

Simon, 6yo boy, wants a LEGO Friends set [3930]. The furniture and cakes is for his hero mini-figure “The Rescue Diver” of the city “Runkelberg”. The girl (Stephanie) in the set will be a doll, that the evil villan “Thorkild” can hammer. The Rescue Diver has the power of having a shadow that can move independently – while the oldest boy sing “Batman’s  lone hero song – being a long way away from home“.

//Keep smiling – keep shining - Knowin’ you can always count on me - for sure //

A colleague brought homemade cupcakes to work yesterday. I had the day off – but he saved one for me for the next day. A colleague in another department is not in – text her. She’s ill and send my best wishes. Writing to a friend, about a former colleague just home from hospital – here chocolate is being ordered.

Even superheros need help

IMG_8630, a photo by jlottosen on Flickr.

LEGO Friends sewing club helps out superman