From the test factory to QA coaching
Eight people, 100 applications, a test manual that nobody read: How a QA team ditched the control function and replaced it with coaching.
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Latest Episodes
Conversations with testers, developers, and coaches who work in the field.
Nudging for more security
85 percent of cyberattacks start with a human error. How nudging leads users to safe behavior without forcing them.
Nonviolent communication in software testing
Nonviolent communication has four components: Observation, feeling, need, request. What this looks like in everyday testing.
Business-driven test automation
Insurance salespeople test releases themselves when tools and coaching are right. A Center of Excellence needs three minutes per release.
Implementation as a test oracle
If you calculate target values for 2,500 signals manually, you lose the connection. How a reference implementation as a test oracle solves this.
Learning with simulations
If you really want to understand agile working, you don't need a slide - you need a board, cards and a round of simulation.
Test plans made easy: Lightweight test strategies
Test plans that end up in a drawer don't help anyone. How a modular QA toolkit is changing that and why it will soon be open source.
When Robot Framework Is Worth It, and When It Isn't
End-to-end across web, desktop, database and 3270 hosts: where Robot Framework earns its place, where web-only tools stop, and why it won't die soon.
Podcasts in the software testing area
Why do most podcasts die after seven episodes? Continuity beats perfection - and how conferences become a topic turbo.
Testing enterprise software correctly
Anyone who configures SAP is really testing side effects across the whole system. Why enterprise testing needs its own rules and skills.
Testing microservices
From a sluggish monolith with hours of end-to-end testing to fast microservices: Which test strategy really works for this.
What Informal Networks Mean for How Your Company Works
Informal networks are who people actually turn to when things go wrong. Why they decide how fast teams adapt, and why you cannot order them into being.
AI testing and certification
Testing AI without structure is like testing without scale. How a three-dimensional matrix brings order to the chaos of AI testing dimensions.
Quality in the SAFe environment
Quality responsibility does not end at the story boundary. How quality coaching in SAFe closes the gaps between teams that nobody wanted to see.
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright: The Real Effort
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright took one team over a year next to daily QA work. The stumbling blocks: session handling, request interception, grown tests.
Risk-Based Testing in Practice: Cutting E2E Tests by Half
Which headline do you not want in tomorrow's paper? Risk-based testing starts with that question. One team cut its end-to-end tests by 50 to 60 percent.
Testing web components vs. UI elements
280 UI tests in under three minutes without a backend are possible with isolated UI testing. Mocked API responses keep the suite stable.
Analyzing and improving requirements
Requirements often have more gaps than expected, and DEFOSPAM uncovers them systematically. AI can support exactly this analysis step well.