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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

Mapping Biases to Testing: the Anchoring Effect

Dear reader, welcome back to the Mapping Biases to Testing series. If you have not read the introduction yet, I advise you to do that first. Today it is my pleasure to discuss the first bias in this series: the Anchoring Effect. Before we start mapping that to testing, I

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

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’

6 Months of Daily Yoga

In august 2015 I started committing to a daily yoga practice. In this blog post I’ll tell you why I started doing this and if it has benefited me. It all began when I started working as a mobile tester. I began to notice pain in my shoulders and

A list of books

I asked Twitter friends for book recommendations and I got a lot! From Richard Bradshaw: his amazon wishlist. Will not list all the books separately here, because the list is quite long! Mostly non-fiction on this list, it seems. The rest of the list, in no particular order: Men Without

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