The German SAP users’ organization just had their yearly event #DSAGJK19, using the analogy to movies as leitmotif through the conference. Visiting the conference with a testing mindset, the movie I had to think of was “A rebel without a cause” (You know, the one where James Dean had a …
The QS camp 2019 is over – QS camp 2020 will come. As it was great. And as there were many questions left. What will be the future of testing? What do we need to learn? The third QS Barcamp in Hamburg, was again organized by StugHH and OOSE Innovative …
Some of you had that before: bam, accident, life gets disrupted. Then you start to recover but life is different. You start finding out what you can do and what not yet…. You do not know the way forward; you just have to start and see what happens, what new …
Being educated in a catholic school, I remember what the essence of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is: The three Persons are distinct, yet are one “substance, essence or nature”. Last StugHH event we learned about another trinity: Virtual reality as essence of hardware, software and human (body and …
At times, your application is just a tiny little step in a long business process. Even given that the application under test had been tested properly according to whatever testing approach you choose – there might be the situation where the scope of the process is way beyond the scope …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …