When we witness or experience some situations, we learn a lot more from them.

Games are a great way of learning something new and also for making common but often overlooked things more obvious.

In this session, we propose to play a game which will help us understand the impact of win-lose situations. This game involves multiple teams that have to make quick decisions within the team as well as across teams in order to win as many points as possible. It involves negotiation and competition with other teams but at the same time co-operation too.

We will also have a discussion about learnings from the game.

The idea of the game and more details about it are here:

• https://www.trainingcoursematerial.com/free-games-activities/conflict-resolution-influencing-and-negotiation-activities/win-as-much-as-you-can
• http://intranet.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/catl/media/resource_files/Win_as_much_as_you_can.pdf

Why would you want to build your own mobile device lab for test automation? Isn’t it difficult to maintain and expensive? Yes it is! But we (Anand Bagmar, Priyank Shah and Lavanya Mohan) still had to. And this one time setup activity had a huge ROI.

From our experience in working for an OTT (over the top entertainment) content rich product that has presence in various regions with a large customer base, we have had learnings of how to build quality in-house and making testing repeatable.

We will cover the reason we chose to build the Mobile Automation Devices lab (MAD Lab) in-house, how we chose the devices and OS combinations, our experiments and learnings, etc.

More details about MAD-LAB can be found in blogposts by Anand:
https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/search/label/madlab