Year: <span>2016</span>

Learning Application Security – a Self-Experiment

Have you changed the password of your heating system so that your neighbors cannot stop the heat? Does your baby phone carry a virus that supports botnet attacks? Has your car been opened by a thief’s mobile phone? The doors of IoT devices seem to be wide open! Do you …

A Real Life Example for e2e Testing

Starting Point: a Project with many Business Processes In one of my last projects I worked in an environment with an application that had very many lengthy end to end (e2e) business processes. Technically, the system consisted of a framework that had been heavily configured and customized. Customization included changes …

Teach Basics of a Test Strategy in 3h

Being Asked to Give an Unexperienced Student an Overview of a Test Strategy, What Would You Do? This is exactly the situation I encountered lately: my boss asked me to help a young student to get a feel for what is needed in a test strategy. I got three hours …

QA Bullshit Bingo

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 …

End to End Testing – What For?

Sometimes I feel not needed anymore. I admit, I love business process testing. I enjoy the art of picking the right business process to test. I firmly believe in the power of enhancing requirements by using a system view. Maybe even using a “systems thinking” view – although I am …