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Articles about software development, testing, coding and IT in general.

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’

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

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