The document discusses finding personal success in testing by embracing bewilderment. It notes that testers specialize in uncertainty and create order from chaos by not having a fixed map or approach. The document acknowledges those who have helped the author on their testing journey and concludes by discussing possibilities that come from embracing bewilderment and stumbling in testing helps perfect the world.

1. Beyond Bewilderment
Finding personal success in testing
Lanessa Hunter
CAST 2014 NYC
August 2014

2. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
- Rumi

3. Discontent Testing can be tedious

4. Initiation Building a testing culture

5. Emptiness Testing without a map

6. Emptiness Finding my maps
Source: Selena Delesie CAST 2013 presentation

7. Chaos Testers specialize in uncertainty

8. Chaos Creating Order

9. Criticism We all make mistakes

10. Criticism It takes strength to stay open

11. Meaning The purpose of testing?

12. Completion Approaches… patterns in testing

13. On Bewilderment
“By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
-Sri Aurobindo

14. Possibilities

15. Acknowledgements
➤ AppRiver Development Team
➤ ProcessArts.com
➤ Michael Paul Hunter
➤ Steve McIlwain
➤ Parimala Hariprasad
➤ Rand Hicks
➤ Dechay Watts
➤ Sylvia Roldan Dohi
➤ Chris Barr
➤ Anne-Marie Charrett
➤ Michael Bolton