Take your test object. Turn it around. How does it smell? How does it taste? How does it feel? Can you suck at it as well as on the previous? What is the difference? Throw it away and see if Daddy also gets this one back to you… What I …
Agile testing days are over. I have not been there, but from Twitter it seems they happened in a different land – the Unicorn Land. Must be great there, all those helpful experts and friendly people, a lot of fantastic user names with certain message…: @FriendlyTester, @the_qa_guy, @badtesting, Testknight, …. …
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 …
Bind forever? Schiller is talking in his “Song of the Bell” about the bond of marriage, and assumes this is a lifelong bond. Nowadays, it is more common to talk about “marriage contracts”, so the above would read as “therefore test, who wants to subscribe a contract”. And I guess, …
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 …
Everybody loves agile. Really everybody? Is agile work in the new economy the utopia we all dream of? Is this the silver bullet to testers happiness? Isn’t that a weird question? You would not expect so see “sad” and “agile” in one sentence, wouldn’t you? But actually, there are quite …
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 …