QA, Music, Art & Life are like Storytelling
‘Bubbles’
Storyteller has become an increasingly important word & role in my world. It summons for me both reality, as well as the possibilities of what could be.
I have various interests spanning high technology, as well as music & the arts in general, as agents of positive cultural & societal change. I am well aware that society needs a cohesive & inspiring ‘story’ to reach its maximum potential.
Through my original compositions & art, I have always felt that I am communicating a ‘story’ to the listener. I feel that I am a storyteller. This ‘story’ could be a series of events, a mood, a feeling, an ‘image,’ etc.
In my high tech work, I more recently started realizing that all along throughout my career, I have also been a storyteller as I go about my work.
As a Marketing professional, I created customer proposals that communicated a story of what could be, & when accepted & contracted for, became reality.
More recently, my work involves Quality Assurance, the part science, part art, of testing a piece of software to make sure that it looks & behaves the way it was specified & created. QA is the best attempt to minimize any non-working components from seeing the light of day.
As QA professionals, we create various documents to support our ‘stories.’ A QA Test Strategy, a Test Plan & more so a Test Case document, all support what the story ought to be. It is a plan as to how things should work in the product. Once a Test Case is run, i.e. its steps followed as we carry out various actions, then its results display the reality of ‘what is,’ the actual story.
Of course, the goal is to have the before & the after ‘stories’ be as close to the same as possible, or reconcile & fix any differences. And to test again the ‘story.’
I now approach just about everything I do as a storyteller, thinking & feeling that which I want to communicate. I then look for ways to express & share my ‘story.’
