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

"Good vibes only". How about you learn how to cope?!

"Good vibes only". How about you learn how to cope?!

I was at LLEWT last week, a peer conference on Anglesey, north Wales, where the theme was: communication. My report, “Why don’t you listen to what I say” was chosen by the content moderator. I’ll write about that topic on a separate occasion, because right now I feel

Stop trying to make refactoring happen, it's not going to happen.

I went to Joy of Coding yesterday, a one-day conference in Rotterdam. Two of the talks were about refactoring. One talk called it “mending code”, and zoomed in on this rather strange phenomenon in IT: we’d rather demolish some code and write it new and fresh, than fix the

Why I struggle with working in a traditional office setting

+ learn how I cosplayed as a productive coworker 💅 I want you to answer one question when you’re done reading this article, and that is: can you relate? Please comment here, or wherever I’ve linked this article. Thank you. Now that I’m not working in a traditional office

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