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.
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Conversations with testers, developers, and coaches who work in the field.
AI Audit: How the AI Assessment Matrix Structures Testing
An AI audit needs a yardstick. The TÜV AI Lab's AI Assessment Matrix maps test dimensions against the lifecycle, so assessors pick the relevant fields.
Quality Coaching in SAFe: Closing Gaps Between Teams
Quality coaching in SAFe closes the gap between teams on a release train through requirements coaching, process workshops and defect management.
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright: The Real Effort
Migrating from Cypress to Playwright took a team over a year alongside daily QA. The main hurdles: session handling, request interception, legacy 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.
UI Testing with Mocks: Test the Frontend Without a Backend
UI testing with mocked API responses checks the frontend as a full app, no backend needed. At Volkswagen, 280 tests run in under three minutes.
Requirements Analysis with DEFOSPAM: Finding Gaps Early
Requirements analysis with DEFOSPAM: seven question areas expose unclear definitions, ambiguity and missing parts. AI adds ideas, people judge them.
AI Test Description: Test Cases Structured Like Code
An AI test description makes AI systems testable: five capabilities and quality criteria like correctness and bias turn standards into concrete tests.
Tester Stereotype: Only 6 Percent Fit the Mold
Only 6% of surveyed testers fit the tester stereotype. Many come from boatbuilding, theater or urban planning, and degrees barely predict their roles.
AI-Supported Test Design: Method Knowledge Still Matters
AI-supported test design delivers equivalence partitions and boundary values in minutes, about 80 percent correct. Catching errors takes method skills.
CI/CD Pipelines in Embedded C: Tests as a Safety Net
CI/CD pipelines for embedded C at Marquardt run on CMake, Google Test and generated mocks. Every bug fix starts with a test that reproduces the bug.
Is Mutation Testing Worth the Runtime? Where It Pays Off
Every mutant reruns your test suite, and that gets slow fast. How incremental analysis in PIT and a focus on core logic make mutation testing pay off.
How to Pick a Test Design Technique Without Learning 30
25 to 30 test design techniques exist, yet about ten from four groups cover most cases in practice. How to pick one by problem type, risk and skills.
Code Readability: Why Some Code Is So Hard to Understand
Code readability depends on working memory, which holds about four chunks at once. Good naming, few arguments and no side effects respect that limit.
Test Infrastructure: Real Combi Steamers, Tested Every Night
RATIONAL's test infrastructure runs around 2,000 system tests every night on real combi steamers, driven by a Python framework and relay modules.
Test Leadership: Bringing Testing to the Leadership Level
Without test leadership, testing culture stays stuck at team level. The ACT2LEAD model bundles eight principles, from transparency to diversity.
Organizational Intelligence: Efficiency Blocks Adaptation
Organizational intelligence shows in how well teams learn together. Retrospectives are the biggest lever, pure efficiency leaves little room to adapt.
Software Testing in 2024: AI and Legislation as Drivers
Software testing trends 2024: AI became standard in test tools, while the Accessibility Act, Cyber Resilience Act and EU AI Act pulled testing earlier.