Testing on the Toilet: A Success Story from STARWEST 2007

As testers, we often need to inform and educate our colleagues about the fundamentals of testing. The challenge is not just to get their attention for five minutes; the goal is to continually reinforce the benefit and techniques for testing. In their STARWEST 2007 Keynote, Googlers Bharat Mediratta and Antoine Picard introduced the idea of “Testing on the Toilet”-a testing newsletter posted in toilets throughout Google’s development campus. In this story of implementing a great idea in your company, Mette Bruhn-Pedersen describes how she adapted this idea to spread the testing message in her organization. Instead of using a testing newsletter, Mette created a “Testing on the Toilet” quiz consisting of questions based on the ISTQB foundation syllabus on the fundamentals of testing. Learn how to customize this approach to your organization and discover how to create your own, unique testing message.