1.5.1 Generic Skills Required for Testing

Question 1

Testing knowledge:
- To increase testing “eff…” e.g. by using t…

Answer 1

• effectiveness,
  test techniques

Question 2

List of relevant skills/traits:
- “thorough…”
- “care…”
- “cur…”
- attention to “ “
- being “m…” (to identify “ “, especially ones that are d… )

Answer 2

• thoroughness
• carefulness
• curiosity
• details
• methodical
  defects
  difficult to find

Question 3

More relevant skills:
- good com…
- active “l…”
- being a t…
- to interact effectively with all “ “
- to convey information to “o…”
- to be “u…”
- to report and d…

Answer 3

• communication skills
• listening
• team player
  
  • stakeholders
  • others
  • understood
  • discuss defects

Question 4

More skills (thinking):
- a…
- cri…
- cre… (to increase t… )

Answer 4

• Analytical thinking
• critical thinking
• creativity
  testing effectiveness

Question 5

Technical knowledge:
- to increase test “eff…” e.g. by using appropriate test “ “

Answer 5

• efficiency,
  tools

Question 6

Domain knowledge:
- to be able to “u…” and to communicate with end u…

Answer 6

• understand
  users/business representatives

Question 7

Communicating test results may be perceived as “c…” of the “ “ and of its “a…”.

Confirmation bias can make it “ “ to accept “ “ that disagrees with c…

To improve this view, information about d… should be comm…

Answer 7

criticism
product
author

difficult
information
currently held beliefs.

defects and failures
communicated in a constructive way.