Murphy's Law says that nothing is IdiotProof. I say It is possible to make something idiotproof, but nothing is CHILDproof. Our children are the best testers in the world :)
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Me and my son. The best tester :)
Murphy's Law says that nothing is IdiotProof. I say It is possible to make something idiotproof, but nothing is CHILDproof. Our children are the best testers in the world :)
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I thought there can't be anyone in this world whom I can think as "best" tester but I partially agree with you that children do stuff that we as adults cannot think of doing.
What kind of things are children good at?
They might not recognize a problem but they might do experiments that might not be able to think of. As an example I read a post from Ben: http://www.questioningsoftware.com/2007/10/are-you-smarter-than-3rd-grader.html that helped me learn the value of allowing children to play with the product and observing them.
For them if a program crashes or works fine, its all the same. They might have fun with it.
What we might want to do is to allow them to play in a controlled manner and recognize problems that they might not be able to.
They might ask questions that most traditional testers might never ask in their life time. We have a lot to learn from them and most testers today are ignorant about learning.
I am glad to know one of the best testers is in your home :)
You might want to share now and then what your child does and the questions he ask. Ben Simo does that and its valuable reading such stuff.
I dont need to look at an expert to gain humility, I can just observe children and the questions they ask.
Thanks for comment. We, testers, or even parents have lot to learn from our children. Probably the word "Best" was in wrong position. But the meaning is still the same: we should observe and ask, whenever it is possible.
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