What makes a good tester?
What makes a good tester? This is the second of a series of three columns. The central themes of the columns is “how do I become a software testing expert?” Part 1 can be found here. This blog po...
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Agile Testing Days - A gathering called PATS
November 14-17 I attended Agile Testing Days in Potsdam. It was a great experience! In a series of experience reports on my blog I will reflect this conference. I want to start with the gathering o...
You can learn testing!
This is the first in a series of three columns. The central theme of the columns is “how do I become a software testing expert?”. This blog post was originally written as a column for Testtnewsonl...
The final exit of the test manager?
Last week I attended the autumn event by TestNet. This was an awesome event (as always!) where Leon Bosma did a interesting talk on the role of the test manager in the future with the title “Test M...
A new cash CAT?
Two weeks ago I had a discussion with an account manager of a testing consulting company about CAT: Certified Agile Tester. His company sells this training and he told me he sees a certification tr...
Preparing a talk - So you think you can test?
I am asked to do a talk at a test consultancy company. To prepare for this talk I want to share my thoughts with you. Hope you can challenge me to rethink or sharpen them. As a test consultant I h...
Decisions on conferences
This afternoon I read an interesting post from my colleague and fellow DEWT member Jean-Paul. In his post he askes the question: “What do you, or rather what does your manager, see as valid justifi...
RST – Part 2
I updated the first part of my write-up about RST a little. You can find that post here. Heuristic test strategy model An important part of the RST course is the Heuristic Test Strategy Model (HT...
The quality? Oh, we test it in! (part 2)
Who is actually responsible for the quality? To answer that question, I ask myself two questions: what is quality? And what is responsible? Quality is a difficult concept. In training on software ...
The quality? Oh, we test it in!
Friday I saw a tweet by Andreas Prins. Since they are in Dutch, I will translate them here. His tweet: Question: is this statement correct? # The quality? We will #test that in! My reaction: Can ...