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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mobile Testing But Were Afraid to Ask Did you read this lurid headline to the end? Or did you also stop reading after a few words and thought of that famous movie with Woody Allen? This is what someone pointed out to me …
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 …
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 …