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General thoughts after Agile Testing Days 2015

Now that I’ve been home for two days again, it is time to reflect on the past week. I arrived full of anticipation on Sunday night, and left on Friday morning. I had a bit of a ‘off this world’ feeling the entire time, leaving all the habits from

Agile Testing Days 2015, Day 3

The last day already….Again, I’m late with the blogging. I missed the complete morning programme, actually. The reason this time is a hangover. Last night was so great. I tried to make up for the fact that I was sober the night before, so I had a little

Agile Testing Days 2015, Day 2

Sorry folks!! I’ve just now started the live blogging and it’s 1 pm. OOPS. The reason is that I had my own talk at 10:50 in the morning and I was too nervous to attend the opening keynote. Which is a shame, because I heard it was

Agile Testing Days 2015, Day 1

Okay, so let’s start this live blogging thing again. Before I begin I want to say that I miss one person at the conference and that is: Pete Walen. He just belongs here, and I really miss his presence. He was the one who also live blogged the whole

Testing doesn't innovate?

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

Rediscover your focus

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

West Highland Way Dag 1

Vanmorgen bij de start in Milngavie bleek dat we niet de enigen waren die op het briljante idee waren gekomen de West Highland Way te lopen. Het was heerlijk weer en dat was een goed begin. Deze etappe vergde nog geen gekke inspanningen qua stijgen of dalen en dat was