Title: Bug Advocacy& Beyond!

Overview & Purpose: The key goal of any bug reporter is to provide high-quality information, well written, to help stakeholders make wise decisions about which bugs to fix. Although most testers find and report bugs in their day-to-day work yet only a few are very good at it. This workshop is designed to help you be a Good Bug Advocate. 

Principles Driving This Workshop: 

1. Bug Advocacy is a persuasive skill that requires thorough investigation, analysis, and clear reporting.

2. Bug Investigation and Reporting Skills can be made systematic and faster using suitable resources, oracles, heuristics, and tools.

3. Bug Advocacy is one of the Core Foundational Skills for any tester who want to be good in this field.

Why someone should care about this Workshop: 

1. Become an influential tester of your project.

2. Learn how to effectively convey risks and meaningful information using Clear & Credible Bug Reports.

3. Learn how to use Tools, Oracles, Cheat sheets, & Other Resources to be good at advocating for bugs & quality.

Overview of Topics to be Covered: 

1. Basic Concepts: Explore “quality” and “bugs” in detail. Anatomy of a Bug Report.

2. Persuasive Bug Reporting: Making People Want to Fix the Bug: Creating reports that clearly communicate bugs in their honest light so that decision-makers can make a quick well informed decision.

3. The Content, Clarity, and Credibility of Good Bug Reports: How to structure reports in more useful and credible way for better decision-making by others.

4. Tools & Tips: Tools & Tips to be moreefficient at bug reporting.

Targeted Audience:

1. Testers: Who deal with finding and reporting bugs in their day-to-day work.

2. Leads & Managers: Who want to train their team to be good at bug advocacy.

3. Developers: Who want to save their day-to-day time by guiding testers to provide them with clear and concise bug reports.