Software testing in the future - Interview with Wolfgang Platz
Explore the future of software testing with low-code development, DevOps integration, and enhanced quality assurance methodologies.
Test Management & Strategy
Planning, steering, and improving testing activities through test strategy, risk, metrics, maturity models, and governance.
Foundations
Articles
Software testing in the future - Interview with Deutschen Bahn
In 2025, explore the future of software testing with evolving quality assurance strategies and insights on CI/CD for continuous testing.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Michael Mlynarski
Explore the future of software testing with AI in software testing techniques revolutionizing quality assurance strategies.
Software testing in the future - Interview with Robin Van
Explore the future of software testing, where Quality Assurance in Agile and teamwork are crucial for success. Discover modern QA techniques!
Test Manager in Agile Projects
As a test manager in agile projects, enhance your role in quality assurance and explore agile test management techniques. Discover best practices today!
Analytical Quality Assurance
Improve your software quality with analytical quality assurance, efficiently measuring software artifacts to detect issues early.
Time for the Essentials
Use test automation tools to streamline routine tasks efficiently and gain more time for agile testing techniques.
Modeling Metrics for UML Diagrams
Explore how metrics of UML diagrams in software projects enhance design efficiency and quality.
Estimation of Test Projects
Optimize your test project estimation with the COCOMO II formula and improve test case productivity
The Test Center - Efficient Software Testing
Enhance your software testing with our dedicated test center. Achieve quality assurance and efficiency through our expert-led processes.
Measuring and Testing Applications
Measuring application systems offers insights into size, quality, and complexity, enhancing IT strategy development and decision-making. Discover key metrics.
Podcast Episodes
The Three Root Causes Behind Most Performance Failures
Slow systems cost real money before they ever crash. A 70% CPU threshold triggers automated alerts, isolates the root cause, and keeps users from ever seeing a 404.
Why Complete Coverage Doesn't Guarantee the Absence of Errors
100% branch coverage achieved—and yet bugs were still found. What this says about code coverage as a metric, and why assertions are crucial.
What Bacteria Do Better Than Your Scrum Team
Avoiding bugs is the wrong strategy. What bacteria and moths teach us about trends, hypotheses, and robustness in software projects.
TMMI Level 5: How Mature Teams Stop Bugs Before They Exist
TMMI shows companies exactly where their test processes stand and what the next step looks like, from basic planning to preventing defects before they exist.
Effective test reporting without overhead
Test reporting in 5 steps: Goal, position, forecast, data quality and automation. How reporting becomes a real management tool.
Structured Exploratory Testing Strategies That Work
Exploratory testing is not just clicking around randomly. Here is how scoping, timeboxing, and risk focus turn it into a sharp quality tool.
Why Managers Don't Listen to Testers
Managers speak in numbers, testers speak in risks. Closing that gap with basic economics can protect your job and actually get quality initiatives approved.
Facing Impostor Syndrome as a Software Tester
Impostor syndrome doesn't just hit newcomers. A seasoned test manager shares how naming her inner critic helped her build a career without a degree.
Testing and quality assurance for start-ups
Quality in start-ups is not created by processes, but by attitude. Why testers need to be louder than developers.
Metrics: Asset or Trap?
More tests don't mean better quality. See why pairing every metric with a counter-metric is the move that actually drives improvement.
Quality Storming
Errors usually occur long before anyone tests. Quality Storming makes visible where quality is lost in the process - before it's too late.
Multidimensional risk-based testing
Risk-based testing works - but only if it's more than a gut feeling. Five levels, one aggregated score, zero extra effort.
Software Test Leaders
Testing leadership is often invisible in companies, and that gap quietly kills quality. The ACT2LEAD model names exactly what's missing and why it matters.
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.
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.
Software Test Leadership
Who is really responsible for quality in a company often remains unclear. The ACT2LEAD model shows what leadership in testing actually looks like.
Measuring quality
More data does not automatically mean better decisions. Which software metrics really help and why context is more important than any number.
ISTQB in practice at Bucher and Suter
Without a test structure, without a budget, without ready-made tools: How one team built real quality assurance step by step.
Minimum Viable Test Strategy
Test strategy via workshop instead of a hundred-page document: How a collaborative format quickly brings teams to a common test picture.
Test organization of the next decade
From the I-Shape to the V-Shape: Why testers will need in-depth knowledge in several areas in the future and how cell teams could replace hierarchies.
Quality assurance of AI
Testing AI means rethinking: no clear test oracle, statistical quality instead of pass/fail. What this means in concrete terms and which methods really help.
New edition Software Metrics
Software metrics are often avoided because they reveal inconvenient truths. Yet sometimes a simple table is enough to manage projects in a measurable way.
Quality by design
Rather than testing for errors, Quality by Design avoids introducing them at all. The approach comes straight from the pharma industry.
Evolutionary quality
Demanding maintainability early while the market is still missing is wrongly prioritized. The evolution model shows which quality goals count.
Gamification in testing
Manual testing is no fun, and risk analyses usually end up unread in a drawer somewhere. Gamification solves both with concrete formats.
Quality assurance in agile projects
Quality in agile projects is not created at the back in acceptance testing, but at the very front in dialog. Why this is the case and what often goes wrong.