
Interviewing Programmers for Quality Mindset
Lately, I happened to have an interesting discussion with my colleague Dirk Meißner on whether programmers should have reasonable understanding of testing or not. A lot has been talked and written ...

Lately, I happened to have an interesting discussion with my colleague Dirk Meißner on whether programmers should have reasonable understanding of testing or not. A lot has been talked and written ...

During my ET/SBTM workshops, I have been often asked if it is possible to perform Session Based Testing in typical Agile/DevOps environments. I think if tester knows how to perform SBT (especiall...
Before some of you start freaking out, let me make this clear – no, it’s not the pot some of you might be thinking of 🙂. It’s an abbreviation of “Problem on Table”, an activity we have recently sta...

Nothing beats the pleasure of talking and testing with old friends on a cozy weekend. Even better if it is a long weekend and the weather is awesome (I must tell you I have fallen in love with Spr...
With my experience as an Agile tester so far, one thing I see organisations still struggling with or trying to get better at are the estimations.While thinking deeply about what makes our estimatio...
Hmm…. I was sort of in a cave after day 5th and now it’s action time for me again. Not that I was totally out of the challenge but could not manage to blog about it. So… here is the list of tasks...
Day 5 is about “Coming out of your comfort zone”. Well, it took me a while to figure out my own comfort zone since I have never thought so deeply about it. Whatever has been thrown at me a ‘testi...
On day four of the challenge, I am expected to find a testing event (online or in person) to attend. I have signed up for New Model Testing: A New Test Process And Tool webinar by Paul Gerrard a...
As a part of day 3 of #20DaysofTesting at XING AG challenge, I was expected to read one blog and comment on it. But the blog I have chosen to comment on has rather encouraged me to write a blog ins...
Some awesome colleagues at workplace (Maik Nogens and Ionut Oancea) have come up with this cool idea of 20DaysOfTesting@XING, on the lines of what Software Testing Club did some days back. I regre...