The art of reflection
Photo by Andre Mouton Once is coincidence Twice is striking Three times is pattern October 19-21, 2018 DEWT held their 8th annual peer conference with “Developing expertise in software testing” ...
Huib Schoots
Considerations when testing a software application in a context-driven way
Written by: Joris Meerts (main author), Huib Schoots and Ruud Cox at the time of writing all working at Improve Quality Services in the Netherlands. Introduction One of the cornerstones of context...
Let’s stop talking about testing, let’s start thinking about value
This is an Alex Schladebeck and Huib Schoots co-production and this blogpost was co-authored by Alex. So where you read I, you could read Alex and I. This year Alex Schladebeck and I did two keyno...
Creating a Test Strategy
At EuroStar 2017 I did a experiential workshop with Pekka Marjamaki and Carsten Feilberg called “The Magic of Sherlock Holmes – Test Strategy in a blink of an eye”. The goal of this full day worksh...
Does certification have value or not?
Photo by Luis Alberto Cardenas Otaya I read a blogpost in Dutch named “Does certification have value or not?” by Jan Jaap Cannegieter. I wanted to reply, but there was no option to reply, so I dec...
Test improvement in an agile/CDT environment
This post and the article have been updated on April 4, 2017. One day during a team meeting at Joep‘s previous job at a bank the Team Manager of Testing, listed a number of topics his testers coul...
A Road to Awesomeness
At TestBash Manchester I did a presentation titled “Great Resources - A road to awesomeness”. In this talk I tried to explain how testers can become awesome. I talked about learning and testing ski...
Context Driven Clichés
Today I read a blogpost by Olaf Agterbosch on the ViQiT site with the intriguing title “Context Driven Clichés“. Since it is written in Dutch, I will first translate his post. Do you recognize ...
Too controversial?
On May 11 2016 TestNet held her spring conference with “Strengthen your foundation: new skills for testers” as the central theme. They claim on their website: “TestNet is a network of, by and for t...
A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing
Test Automation is a hot item in our industry. Many people talk about it and much has been written on this topic. Sadly there is still a lot of misconception about test automation. Also, some peopl...