A post about best practices? Bitch, please. I might get a tad obnoxious in this post. If that ain’t your thing, I warned you now! Some time ago, I witnessed my personal record of “best practices”. I was attending a presentation where these cursed words were thrown around carelessly. I counted at least 10 of […]
TestBash NL 2017 Conference Day Live Blog
A TestBash conference in my own hometown, that is like a dream come true! Going there on my bike, super nice. I’ll try to live blog the whole conference day, hope it’ll be useful to you. Technically, this is already the second day of TestBash NL 2017. Yesterday we had a day filled with workshops. […]
Agile Testing Days 2016: Wrap Up!
It’s a good thing Pete Walen was attending ATD again, because my live blogging efforts weren’t up to par this year. I posted two blogs so far, but they were neither live nor very detailed. It’s just that I didn’t attend a lot of talks this year. It seems that every year I go to […]
Agile Testing Days 2016, Day 2
In the morning I was having the all too familiar fight with nerves again (every time I am about to give a presentation this happens). I stayed sober the night before, but I had very little sleep. I was already ‘busy’ with my talk in my mind. At breakfast, I struggled with a small egg […]
Agile Testing Days 2016, Day 1
Never have I ever….Been hungover before a conference even started. Oops, guilty. I have never started a conference on such a weird note. I guess I have to tell what happened. The short version is: IF you cannot handle a lot of alcoholic beverages, THEN don’t drink a lot of said alcoholic beverages. Seems easy […]
Exploratory Testing with the Team: The Sequel!
As luck would have it, one of the developers I worked with during the time I was doing experiments with getting my whole team hooked on exploratory testing is now also working at my current client. He came to my desk and asked if I was interested in teaching his team about exploratory testing, because he […]
The Thing with Quality at Speed
For the first time ever I’ve had to start writing a blog for the third time over. A new experience to me, because usually the words come flowing. Not this time! The topic is a difficult one in the sense that I have a hard time finding the right words to express myself. It’s so […]
Just Ask for Help
On TestWorks Conf I had the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on Exploratory Testing with Maaret Pyhäjärvi. It was great and I learned so much that day! My head was spinning with all the new insights and I felt very inspired. One thing that Maaret said that is so important is: “you are responsible for your own […]