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

The many personalities of a software tester

I just had a weird insight that I want to share with you. Before I can share it, I must first explain the model that the insight was about. Have you ever heard of the Interpersonal Circumplex? It is a model to assess interpersonal behaviour, traits and motives of people.

"Finding bugs in an organisation"; why I'm frustrated with the tester role recently

I’ve felt a certain frustration with filling the software tester role lately and finally it clicked why. I’ll use this post to explain my feelings. I’ll try to structure it so it doesn’t come across as too chaotic, but please feel free to ask a question

How to: Postman tests HTML report to Microsoft Teams with Gitlab CI/CD

This is my first post of a technical nature, am I devloper now? Goal: Run your Postman tests, create an HTML report and post that to Microsoft Teams all in Gitlab CI/CD. What you need: * an Online Postman Workspace (might required paid version, idk). This means all version control

Series: Recovery in software development is lacking – Maximum Recoverable Volume (MRV)

In this post I’ll take a look what we can learn from the concept of MRV in strength sports when we apply it to software development. The theory from MRV can be found in the book “The Scientific Principles of Strength Training” and this is the source I’ll

Series: Recovery in software development is lacking - Intro

If you do any type of sport you probably know a bit about the concept of recovery. To give an extremely simple explanation of recovery in sport in case you don’t know what it is: it’s what you do in between training sessions to feel ready to train

Learning to Code: What did I learn from failing?

Failing is not fun, and it’s especially terrible if you’re a perfectionist like me. Every failure feels like a stab to the heart, and I take it personally. Trying to rewire my thinking around this is quite hard, but also rewarding. Failing isn’t fun, but at least

The Struggle with Myself: Learning to Code For the Seventh Time

I have tried to learn how to code many times and each time I have failed. I say failed because every time I’ve quit without having a good grasp of coding and it didn’t carry over into my work as tester. I felt as clueless and intimidated by