The other day I tweeted a picture of our test team testing together as a group (for the first time) in our new test lab.
I asked “What do you call a collection of testers in a test lab?”
Some interesting responses below. Are we heading towards a collective noun for testers? No doubt someone’s done a collective noun post before 🙂
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Stephen Newton @SteveAN01 – a play group. Or an informative.
@paul_gerrard – A “Newsroom of testers”
AQtime @aqtimepro – An argument waiting to happen.
George Dinwiddie @gdinwiddie – an exploration?
Darren Hails @rw_testing – correctly located!
mubbashir @mubbashir – Breaking Bad 😉
James Salt @saltpy – happy 🙂
Mark Keats @mkeats – A crash of testers.
neill mccarthy @MccarthyNeill – a curious of…?
Amy Phillips @ItJustBroke – Dangerous
James Lyndsay @workroomprds – an expedition
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Thanks to all who responded.
I remember dicussing this at work a few years ago. It depends on your perspective. From our side, we settled on ‘Assurance’. From the Dev side, we settled on ‘Impediment’.
There are a few more here: http://all-sorts.org/nouns/testers
I’ve come up with an “edifice” of testers.
Edifice, n.
1. a large, imposing building.
2. a complex system of beliefs.
Haha, I actually like to think of groups of testers as a ‘gaggle’. To me we are very similar to geese – great teams who always look out for one another but often seen as threatening to the outsider. Often noisy. 🙂