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, …
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 …
Inspired by the MOT bloggers club initiative to write about anaolgies to testing in real life, it came to my mind, that I approached buying my new Cello pretty much like a tester does: see what needs to be tested and then explore…. I obvioulsy did not write a test …
Those of you who know me, won’t believe the next bit: I just love being led! Not all the time, not by everybody, but there are situations where I absolutely prefer good leadership over no or poor leadership. I even really enjoy leadership when dancing the tango Argentino. And I …
As you are a manager, let me use an analogy. Assume, we are creating a dessert from a given recipe, a chocolate cheesecake, with hot cherries and vanilla sauce. What plan would you create to make sure the result is yummy? The Process Model In this case you know what …
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 …
Lately I read an internal article about the setup of QA in a very large environment. This environment had some mature agile practices, based on a long history of v-model shaped projects. The article was about how one could even improve some specific aspects of the setup. It probably was …