Visiting a conference is always something special! They are the opportunity to learn the newest stuff of your profession and to exchange with other people who are as evangelistic as yourself… Having said that, I had the opportunity to visit the Agile Testing Days in Potsdam in late November 2023. …
The year is 2022 A.C. Testing is entirely occupied by the DevOps teams. Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable quality specialists still holds out against the invadors. And life is not easy for the DevOps teams who garrison the fortified camps of Threat Modellus, Arachnikus, Injectinus, Zapnius and …
Maybe some of you also enjoy physical therapy and also experienced this: your therapist looks at you, moves his or her hands and – pokes right deeply into the spot that hurts most. And how many of you testers have been asked: How could you find that error right away, …
Today 100 days ago, I did something I planned for about for 25 years. While I used to be a consultant, I always said: “When I grow up, I want to be a client!” On first of October 2021, this is what happened: I am a client now! After 100 …
As every year aound this time, testers of germany united to exchange knowledge, experience, feelings, words, tricks, results, … No, it is not a bazar, not a conference, but the Hamburg QS barcamp (https://qs-barcamp.de)! This time we celebrated our fifth birthday, and is was a true celebration – even online…. …
This morning, while I was wondering how to do my annual witches dance at Walpurgisnight with a stay at home order in effect, I stumbled across a test titled: “Are you a REAL witch”? As my latest hexes did not work, and also, as my witch friends do not believe …
Not only, but even more in these days we understand how important it is to have friends to talk to, colleagues to chat with and learn from, and groups to have fun with. As testers we know the pain of insecurity (“is this finding worth the trouble?”), of not being …
Is “according to the requirements” the same as correct? The same as appropriate? The same as ethical? The last #StugHH Event with Tobias Geyer tried to approach an answer. Or at least tried to get us thinking. And that worked! Let’s talk about Ethics and Software Testing! Tobi presented us …
Early September, the StugHH and friends had our 4th QS barcamp in Hamburg. Well, in Hamburg and all over the world. As it was online. ONLINE! In pandemic times not that unusual, but for us it did make a difference. No barbecue night, no chatting along, no coffee times…. BUT: …
Whenever you talk about testing SAP, many people will shy away as they think that is boring. How wrong they are we proved at the #StugHH panel discussion “SAP Test Tool Slam – Successful Test of the S/4 Conversion”. One could learn so much from the panelists and the discussion …