Year: <span>2017</span>

About Unicorns and Rhinos

Agile testing days are over. I have not been there, but from Twitter it seems they happened in a different land – the Unicorn Land. Must be great there, all those helpful experts and friendly people, a lot of fantastic user names with certain message…: @FriendlyTester, @the_qa_guy, @badtesting, Testknight, …. …

Are you still Following or do you Lead Already?

The topic of our last StugHH Event reminded me of the German IKEA slogan “wohnst Du noch, oder lebst du schon” (something like “Are you still dwelling or have you got a life already?”). The topic was: “Self-organized teams? Hierarchy? And QA/IT right in the middle?” The event showed that …

The Transparent Submarine and Other Surprises

Last week I had the exceptional chance to participate on a very special conference on quality. Except for the keynote, no speaker in the program but about 40 speakers overall. A warm up party event in the evening, but everybody discussed already quality. No expectations on contents but tons of …

“Therefore test, who wants to bind himself forever”

Bind forever? Schiller is talking in his “Song of the Bell” about the bond of marriage, and assumes this is a lifelong bond. Nowadays, it is more common to talk about “marriage contracts”, so the above would read as “therefore test, who wants to subscribe a contract”. And I guess, …

The Lean Tester – or should I say “Anorexic”?

Lean testing or dying in beauty? Concentrate on the essential or cover all? Is lean testing just the dernier cri, for those, including management, who think testing is too costly? There is an evolution in testing as well. Not from ape to human, but from “Happy without testing” via “test …

Learning Application Security – Fun with the Juice Shop

Learning to hack a website is not as difficult as I thought. It acually is quite easy, even for me, a not so very technical person. Maybe you have read my post about my adventures in learning application security. While that was rather theoretical, this time I tried a more …

Great Large Quality

They are still around: large projects that are delivered by a mix of on-site and off-site ressources. And there are companies around who embrace this delivery model. Sometimes in the testing scene, you do not dare to admit if you are “still stuck” in such an environment. At the StugHH …

#EveryWomanInQAcounts

There are quite some women in QA, it’s true, absolutely fantastic. It feels that in QA women are even more frequent than in development. Is it because of this sad perception of mothers, who clean-up after their children and men? And testers cleaning up after development? So sad! Apart from …

Learning QA with Gamification

You hear this word pretty often these days „Gamification“. It basically means to awaken the joy of buried lightheartedness of childhood, where you just learn by playing. Well, there are other definitions out there, for example in Wikipedia: “Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game …