Avengers - On a mission to save the world (Testing Skit / Video)

 

“The Avengers” from Microsoft Global Delivery Testing, on a mission to save the world (Testing Skit/Funny)

 

I am back again with another stage act that won our test team a title among 15 other participating teams. If you have read my earlier  attempt (blogged here) and liked it, you will hopefully find this funny.

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<<Scene 1>>

------------------------------------James Bond music playing in the background……………………………….

-------A person comes with a board “Innovation 2013 Awards Ceremony” --------------------------

Sweta (Host): The next IP Innovation Award goes to the Avengers team from GD Community - Testing.

--------------James Bond, Superman, Gunjan (Idea Owner), Arup (Tester 1), Aditya (Community Lead) run to the stage and almost snatch the award from the host. They pose for the group photos and celebrate………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Sweta (Host) to Team: Do you want to tell us your story?

James Bond (Manish): Let me take you back in time 3 months

<<FLASHBACK>>

A person comes with a board “3 months back….”

<</Scene 1>>

<<Scene 2>>

………………………..Test team is working and James Bond comes to the scene………………………………………

James Bond (Manish): hey Superman, I have got a mission for you. To save the humanity, you need to execute these many test cases

Superman (Raj): wallah, these test cases are in Arabic. How would I execute?

James Bond (Manish): come on, you are superman. You can do anything

Superman (Raj): Even superman can’t execute test cases in Arabic

James Bond (Manish): Don’t worry. This is Bond. I have amazing “bonding” with the customer. Let me call them up now.

………… James Bond (Manish) to call the customer. Customer picks the call>>………………………..............

James Bond (Manish): Hello, this is Bond. Mutual Bond

Customer (Sweta) <sounding annoyed>>: Who Bond?

-------------Superman (Raj) and Arup (Tester1) laugh behind him that Bond is after all not so popular……

James Bond (Manish): (tone changes): Actually this is Manish. Testing team. Your test lead.

Customer (Sweta) <sounding annoyed>>:: Do you know what time it is?

James Bond (Manish): sincere apologies. We are in a situation and we need a translator for those Arabic test cases. How early can we get?

Customer (Sweta): It will take 2 weeks to hire one

James Bond (Manish): Ok. I guess I will ask my team to join some Arabic speaking classes

Customer (Sweta): Do whatever it takes but don’t call up again

…………………………………………………………the call ends…………………………………………………………………………………..

James Bond (Manish) (Looks tensed and in deep thoughts)

Tester 1 (Arup): Bond, did you remember our community test newsletter has an update on the language translator tool our guys are working on?

James Bond (Manish) <<thinking why this idea didn’t come to him, pauses and says with authority>>: I know that. I was going to say exactly that. go back to work

James Bond (Manish) <<now looks cheerful and happy>>: Let me go the community lead and talk to him

<</Scene 2>>

<<Scene 3>>

James Bond (Manish): hey Community Lead, my name is Bond. Covalent Bond !! I heard you have got some magic tool for translation

Community Lead (Aditya): sure. Let me connect you with Gunjan (Idea Owner), whose team is working on it

<<Manish and Community Lead (Aditya) go to Gunjan (Idea Owner)’steam>>

Community Lead (Aditya): meet Gunjan (Idea Owner)

James Bond (Manish): hey, this is Bond. Brooke Bond!! I need you to share the location, locale, coordinates to download it

Gunjan (Idea Owner): dude… we have just done a POC of that. We are still in the implementation phase.. if you want to use it…you will need to help us and I can’t promise you extra hours of billing.

James Bond (Manish): When it comes to saving the world, who care about the hours

James Bond (Manish): I have got a superman and a man to help you. Let’s work together.

<<Team forms a huddle and start working on the tool >>

<</Scene 3>>

---------------------------a poster comes saying “v1.0 of the tool is released”……………………………………….

<<Scene 4>>

James Bond (Manish): so what’s up Superman?

Superman (Raj) <<sound panicked>> – Done with the Arabic thing. But now they want to release it in Europe and they have sent the test cases in Spanish and German too

James Bond (Manish): Don’t worry. Bond. Amazing “bonding” with the customer. Let me call the customer.

Arup: Bond, if you don’t mind, our language translator tool using Bing Translator APIs and it will work fine for all these languages

James Bond (Manish): I know that. I was going to say exactly the same. You get back to your work now. Let me call the customer and tell them.

<< James Bond (Manish) calls Customer (Sweta)>>

James Bond (Manish): hello, this is Bond.

Customer: Now what?

James Bond (Manish): We no longer require those translators

Customer (Sweta): good. It will save us 1000 hours

Bond: I know

Customer (Sweta): by the way, what did you do?

James Bond (Manish) (pauses and with a wicked laugh): we learnt all the languages J

Customer (Sweta): now you can call yourself “Universal” Bond

James Bond (Manish): I know <<hangs up the call>>

<</Scene 4>>

<<Scene 5>>

James Bond (Manish): Guys, now that we have saved the work. It calls for a party. Everyone join us.

<<The teams come to the stage and assemble>>

Community lead: Guys, this is great collaboration. I know there are many projects that are struggling with the same problem. I think you should all do a brown bag and session for this at our internal conference. I will make sure everyone gets recognition for their hard work

----poster comes “1000 downloads & 20 projects internally re-using this ”…………………………………………

<</Scene 5>>

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Morale of the act: The skit was about a test team at GD that showed how a team can collaborate and innovate by doing the heavy lifting themselves and getting the right help from community, who acts as enabler. You don’t need superheroes to do wonders. You just need regular guys work together and solve big challenges.

Credits:

Cast:

Community Lead (Testing): Aditya Jain

Test Lead 1 (Lead role) – Manish [as James Bond]

Tester 1 – Raj U [as Superman]

Tester 2 – Arup Dutta [regular guy]

Test Lead 2(Idea Owner) - Gunjan Jain [regular girl]

Host – Sweta Prakash

Customer – Sweta Prakash

Poster Bearer – Jayakant Pottum

Written & Directed by:

Raj Kamal