I was in a meeting where a developer said: “every test is a form of waste”. Coincidentally, this meeting was about how the build was taking too long because the tests were slow, so I can see how the connection was made in the mind of the developer. It must be the tests, right?! What a […]
The abysmal state of ‘testing’ in 2016
I wish I didn’t have to write this blogpost, but here goes. Time to bring out the famous hammer metaphor. As a child I learned how to use a hammer. Not that I’m an expert user, but I’m skilled enough to slap some nails into a wall with it. As a child, I even participated […]
Be a Zero
I recently read a book called “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” by Chris Hadfield, and man….I can only say: read this book! It’s very inspirational and very educational about how going to space works. The author manages to transform space-related things he learned into practical advice you can apply here on Earth. It […]
Repetition in testing
Many people in the IT industry seem to hate repetition. Doing something more than once? Silly you, automate it! What strikes me as funny is that it’s probably not all that easy to automate some of these things. It takes time! But apparently, that’s not what matters. It’s more about the avoidance of repetition. In […]
Mapping biases to testing, Part 1: Introduction
We humans are weird. We think we can produce bug free software. We think we can plan projects. We think we can say “I’ve tested everything”, but how is that possible when we are governed by biases in our thinking? We simply cannot think about everything in advance, although we like to convince ourselves 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 […]
Agile Testing Days 2014 – Day 1
Agile Testing Days 2014 – Day 1 So…let’s start this live blogging thing! Sometimes it may come across as word vomit, but I’m just doing my best to feed you what is being said during presentations with maybe an opinion of my own here and there. Quick re-cap of the previous day. I wasn’t able […]