In agile context, you might have heard of “fail fast”. Rapidly inspecting and adapting gives you the opportunity to change your mind in case the first idea was not as brilliant as thought of. But “fail forwards”? Learn by failing forwards is one of the principles of liberating structures. Liberating structures …
Looking for failures in a system requires curiosity, professional pessimism, a critical eye, attention to detail, good communication with development peers, and experience on which to base error guessing.” This sentence from the CTFL syllabus would also scare you away? It sounds so depressing. Professional pessimism. Who wants that? I …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …