At last year’s ETech they did an Ignite session. Ignites are a series of 5 minute talks (similar to lightning talks) that are supported by slides that tick to the next one at 15s intervals. They were, of course, recorded. It ends with a very, umm, unique short story by Scotto Moore called intangible method, but that is not one that I really paid attention to. That one was Deborah Schultz‘s ‘Stop Yelling, Start Weaving’.

And the most important slide is the second last one in which she lists the ‘Skills of the Weaver’. They look like a pretty good answer to the question that pops up every so often on ‘what attributes do you look for in a tester’.

  • Listener
  • Connector
  • Critic
  • Partial geek
  • Detective
  • Catalyst
  • Diplomat
  • Juggler
  • Approachable
  • Intuitive
  • Inquisitive
  • driven by relationships

Here is the full deck from the presentation

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But because it is highly visual, you can see her on youtube doing the talk at a different event.

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