Bring back magic to your testing
summary
Combines 12 years of magic with QA experience at swinda and shows which concrete magician skills map to testing practices, uses sleight of hand as an observation and pattern disruption exercise, trains misdirection-awareness for UX and security checks, and argues that being a little kid — persistent curiosity, playful exploration, and rapid rehearsal — reliably surfaces bugs and design issues rather than abstractly promising examples.
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