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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

Exploratory Testing with the team

Exploratory Testing with the team

I use Exploratory Testing (will call it ET from now on) every day at work. I like to use it, because it requires focus, creativity, and deep thinking skills. Now, even though my team is doing Scrum, we are now close to the beta-release of our product and the business

General remarks about ATD

General remarks about ATD

It is still the craziest conference of all conferences I’ve been to. It seems like the bar was set even higher this year, with the carnaval night as pinnacle of craziness. When the conference organiser has the best costume of all you know people will be accepting of whatever