Februari 2015: So I had been looking to replace my in-ears with something new because the cable was getting worse and worse. I was getting used to my 50 euro in-ears breaking down at roughly two years of age; I had gone to like three or four pairs in the past six years. But this…
General thoughts after Agile Testing Days 2015
Now that I’ve been home for two days again, it is time to reflect on the past week. I arrived full of anticipation on Sunday night, and left on Friday morning. I had a bit of a ‘off this world’ feeling the entire time, leaving all the habits from home behind, leaving normal work behind. Going…
Agile Testing Days 2015, Day 3
The last day already….Again, I’m late with the blogging. I missed the complete morning programme, actually. The reason this time is a hangover. Last night was so great. I tried to make up for the fact that I was sober the night before, so I had a little bit too much whisky. I played some…
Agile Testing Days 2015, Day 2
Sorry folks!! I’ve just now started the live blogging and it’s 1 pm. OOPS. The reason is that I had my own talk at 10:50 in the morning and I was too nervous to attend the opening keynote. Which is a shame, because I heard it was awesome. A very personal story from an amazing…
Agile Testing Days 2015, Day 1
Okay, so let’s start this live blogging thing again. Before I begin I want to say that I miss one person at the conference and that is: Pete Walen. He just belongs here, and I really miss his presence. He was the one who also live blogged the whole event and honestly, I thought that…
Testing doesn’t innovate?
I was reading an interesting article that stated: Testing as a skilled profession doesn’t get the respect that it deserves Testing hasn’t kept pace with other parts of IT in terms of innovation. I don’t have a silver bullet answer to what we can do to improve these two points, but I do have some…
Rediscover your focus
So you’ve been working on the same project for quite awhile. Say, more than a year. Testing the same application, ‘doing yer thing’. I mean, we cannot all be flashy consultants moving from project A to project B in a matter of months. Personally, I like building up a vast amount of knowledge in one…
Scotland: Walking the West Highland Way
Claire en ik gaan vanaf vrijdag 8 mei naar Schotland om de West Highland Way te lopen, van Glasgow naar Fort William. De totale afstand van de route is 151 kilometer. Het record van deze afstand staat op ongeveer 16 uur rennend, maar wij nemen onze tijd met 8 dagen. Het gaat ten slotte ook…