Testing as a Craft: Deviations Drive the Product Forward
Testing as a craft survives full automation: its outcome depends on the skill of the people doing it. Teams set their quality level consciously.
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Thoughts and insights on software testing, quality assurance, and the future of technology.
T-Shaped Testers: Software Testing of the Future
T-shaped testers who span requirements, architecture, development and DevOps: that is software testing of the future. ML systems need new approaches.
Software Testing of the Future Needs Quality Coaches
Quality coaches shape the software testing of the future. They make quality a team value, even as continuous delivery speeds everything up.
Focus Control: How Teams Get Out of the Problem Trance
Focus control breaks the problem trance. Pattern interrupters, an upright posture and the improv rule "Yes, and" shift a team's attention to what works.
Future Optimism: A Positive Narrative Against Problem Trance
Future optimism is a deliberate mindset: shifting focus from problem trance to a positive narrative opens up better solutions for teams and society.
Technology or Us: Who Will Call the Shots?
Technology as a tool or algorithmic surveillance with a social score? Politicians and corporations won't fix it, so change has to start with each of us.
Models of the World: When Everyone Is Right
Everyone has their own model of the world, built from experience and values. Why agility doesn't fit every company and what Netflix shows about rules.
Why Change Is So Hard: Your Unconscious Sets the Frame
Some teams adopt DevOps within weeks, others give up after a year. The reason lies in the unconscious, shaped by a lifetime of experience.
Is Agility the Answer to the Future?
Agility alone does not answer the challenges of the future. As a framework for personal development, it makes people, teams and companies resilient.
Data Warehouse Testing: Assertions from Transformation Rules
Data warehouse testing needs more than plausibility checks. Assertions generated automatically from transformation rules make results checking reliable.
Types of Systems in Test Automation: From Desktop to Cloud
Types of systems, from desktop and client-server to web, mobile and data warehouse, decide how you automate tests and which tools fit at all.
Pilot Project for Test Automation: Three Phases to Rollout
Test automation pilot projects work best with the three top-ranked tools. Phase two covers one department, phase three the company-wide rollout.
Agile Testing: Quality Is the Responsibility of the Entire Team
Agile testing works when the whole team owns quality. Automation alone won't fix it, but patience, freedom for testers and honest retrospectives will.
Automated Test Design: Higher Automation Levels Cut Costs
Automated test design spans five levels, from capture & replay to model-based testing. Higher levels pay off when frequent changes drive up maintenance.
Agile Test Management: Sharing the Test Manager's Tasks
Agile test management keeps its tasks even without a test manager. Which quality tasks remain in the team and how to share them without knowledge silos.
Agile Manifesto at 20: A Mindset Beyond Gurus and Dogmas
The Agile Manifesto turned 20 and agility now reaches far beyond software. It remains a mindset that no guru, dogma or purchased framework can replace.
Living Software Quality as an Attitude
Software quality becomes a team attitude in stages: from testing basics via reflection and experiments to a culture where testing is part of the work.
Agility: Values and Mindset Instead of Rigid Procedures
Agility is older than the Agile Manifesto. Its values are less about efficiency than about keeping teams able to act in a volatile, uncertain world.