Enhancing your Testing Skills with "Mindset Tools"
summary
A toolkit of concrete reasoning tricks claims to make testers find more and better bugs: label and switch mindsets, use the 7 W + 1 H curiosity checklist, adopt the lazy tester mindset to explore unusual paths, and treat trust as trust the code not the programmer. Techniques come from observing actual failures (a limited launch where a late critical bug is found), reflecting, and adapting test heuristics; examples include uncovering five cascading defects in one feature and prioritizing high‑risk negative scenarios.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:52Let's Define The Tester's Mindset...
- 12:57"Already Tested" Mindset Tool
- 18:01"Lazy Tester" Mindset Tool
- 20:33Communicator Mindset Tool
- 28:30How I Use The Trust Mindset Tool
- 31:26How I use Curiosity Mindset Tool
- 32:50Team Leading Mindset Tool
- 33:56ding your own Mindset toolkit: ORA
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