Stoicism for Product Teams: Don't Confuse Luck with Judgment
Stoicism helps product teams judge a decision by how it was made, not how it turned out. Its tools: premeditatio malorum, 10-10-10, a decision diary.
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Separating functional and quality requirements sounds clean, but in practice the line blurs. Good architecture hides decisions and stays changeable.
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Since 2011, the German Testing Day has been shaped by a board of end users with no vendor interests: practical talks, open formats, unusual keynotes.
Software Expert Witness: State of the Art Means Proven
A software expert witness checks whether software is state of the art, a legal term meaning proven, and judges its maturity by defect density.
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Team conflicts carry energy a team can use. Up to Glasl's stage three, managers can resolve them; from stage four, outside facilitation is needed.
Happy Birthday: Podcast Software Testing Turns One
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Continuous Discovery: Domain Expertise Belongs on the Team
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Exploration and AI: Human Context Can't Be Replaced
AI speeds up routine work, but exploration needs human context it lacks. Quality stays hard to sell, so testers should pair with developers and network.
Remote Teams: When They Outperform Office Teams
Remote teams can work better together than office teams, but only on one condition: Knowledge must be networked, not people.
The Future of Test Organization: Cells Instead of Hierarchy
The test organization of the future replaces hierarchies with cell teams, and testers need V-shape skills with deep knowledge in several areas.
Test Data Management: Testers Order Data Themselves
Five tools, manual transfer errors and no cross-system solution: that was test data management. A store concept changed the entire setup.
ChatGPT in Software Testing: Strong in Exploratory Testing
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Zero Trust at Telekom: From 30 to 3 Identity Providers
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