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Initiative Overview#

Cross-test Day is a quarterly-based event, where team members do exploratory testing for a selected product. It's a great opportunity to disconnect from daily tasks and have an impact on different products.

Why join the event?#

  • Recharging Mind: By exploring a new product, we gain a fresh viewpoint and new ideas. Bringing valuable feedback for the product under test, and also offers ideas on our current products, helping us improve them too.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Live discussions about the selected product open new ways of thinking, testing, and developing. Team members exchange insights, learn from each other's approaches, and bring fresh ideas back to their own work.
  • Enhancing Quality: Identify issues early and strengthen overall product reliability.

Who can join the event?#

  • QA Engineers
  • Developers
  • Product Managers
  • Support Engineers
  • Any team member interested in learning or contributing

How can I join the upcoming event?#

  1. Make sure to join the xtest-day Slack channel (All details about the event will be sent there)
  2. Fill out the received volunteer form about the event (form template)
  3. Show up at the Slack channel during the selected time slot of the event (drop 👋)
  4. Start the journey, explore, and share any questions or feedback on xtest-day.

How is the product selected?#

Each event highlights one/two products, chosen (through alignment with PM/EM) as per needs to maximize:

  • Cross-team exposure
  • Fresh perspectives
  • Knowledge sharing opportunities

Process for the event#

  1. Announcement about the upcoming event on Slack #team-product and during show & tell (includes call for volunteers form, selected product, roles, and expectations)
  2. Kickstart the event day (organizers share more details about selected product, test env, test objectives)
  3. The exploratory test session starts where everyone shares their feedback about the product (questions, enhancements, issues)
  4. PO to review all feedback and create issues for the valid points on the used issue tracking tool with label xtest to facilitate report generation
  5. Reflect and improve phase, where all participants can fill feedback form about the event
  6. Event summary is posted on Slack with Kudos (includes actual # of participants, # issues "bugs/enhancement", participants' feedback)

Past Events#

Upcoming Events#

Stay tuned and keep an eye on Slack!