Agile is about everywhere. You see it in start ups, larger companies, but also in government, financial or medical context. These are not exactly known for being able to cope with a non-fixed scope of things to be done. And there usually are laws that give regulations on how to …
Caution. We talk quality. And have fun. And learn. We are testers. If you ever wanted to feel great and talk about your testing passion without anybody rolling their eyes, come to the Hamburg QS Barcamp. The last one took place on September 1st 2018 at oose Innovative Informatik together …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …