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Mapping Biases to Testing: An Inconvenient Truth

Did you know that having a personal doctor at your disposal could do more harm to your health than good? I’ll explain why. The doctor gets paid by you and with their good intentions wants to do good and be useful. So, they start to assess your bodily health.

Mapping Biases to Testing - The Framing Effect

Hello dear reader, welcome back to another blog post in de Mapping Biases to Testing series. Today, I’m going to write about the Framing Effect. This effect can potentially affect your work greatly. What’s even scarier is that you can never be sure, because the real world differs

How to give advise and support about a topic when you barely know anything about it

One of the hardest parts of being a (test/IT) consultant is that clients expect you to know everything about every topic there is. It sometimes truly feels like mission impossible. In this blog post, I want to explain how I handle this by telling a story of such a

A distributed mob testing session

After I had facilitated a distributed Exploratory Testing workshop, that same client asked me to help them out some more and expand on the topic. I thought it would be a good idea to try out a distributed mob testing session to help them. It would have the added benefit

A Distributed Exploratory Test Workshop

I had the honour of doing my first ever distributed work. So far, I had managed to avoid it. That was mainly by accident, or luck, depending on how you look at it. My first experience with distributed working was a deep dive, because instead of a simple meeting I

Best Practice?

A post about best practices? Bitch, please. I might get a tad obnoxious in this post. If that ain’t your thing, I warned you now! Some time ago, I witnessed my personal record of “best practices”. I was attending a presentation where these cursed words were thrown around carelessly.

TestBash NL 2017 Conference Day Live Blog

A TestBash conference in my own hometown, that is like a dream come true! Going there on my bike, super nice. I’ll try to live blog the whole conference day, hope it’ll be useful to you. Technically, this is already the second day of TestBash NL 2017. Yesterday