Zero-bug-policy - Myth, goal or state of the art
Working as a trainer in Scrum- and Kanban-workshops and -trainings, I am often confronted with the question on how to handle bugs. Bugs are mentioned neither in descriptions of planning meetings nor...
View ArticleFeedback
In my last post I wrote about missing feedback if you install a bug-fixing team. Recently I encountered another form of missing and late feedback: One of my customers was introducing Scrum a couple of...
View ArticleResumé 2012
Since a couple of years I write a resumé on my life at the end of the year. This year I hesitated but waiting for midnight seems to yield some time for a last blog entry this year. Why I hesitated? I...
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Raise the bar
Last week I had a conversation on T-shaped people with a client. Since the Agile Testing Days 2012 I wanted to write a blog entry on the topic and he filled some more gaps in my head. So now the time...
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My experiences with PSL in April 2013
On April 19th, 2013 I finally arrived at PSL with Jerry Weinberg, Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby. I think I have learned a lot and I am sure I didn’t digest the whole of it yet. Nevertheless I won’t...
View ArticleActive Observers
Just a short while ago, I realized what the role of an Active Observer means. I have never officially heard about a role like this and our team stumbled over it more by accident than on purpose. In...
View ArticleBlogs for the community
At Let's Test in Sweden I finally met Pradeep Soundararajan. In a break which I took from the sessions I had the chance to chat with him and while talking I remarked at some point that I sometimes...
View ArticleHow to break off your client's meeting
Some time ago I was at a client to facilitate an estimation meeting of a brand new Scrum team. At some point I broke it off and we didn't estimate at all. Instead we tried something completely...
View Article"What do you do?"
James Marcus Bach just recently challenged me by asking “What do you do?“ He recommended that I think about my answer before giving it. The question was in the context of conversation with a group of...
View ArticleWhat is agile testing?
I've had this conversation many times, as have others. On almost every occasion where I have met so-called agile testers (e.g. Agile Testing Days, GATE,…) the question came up “What is agile testing?”...
View ArticleMore than a year
Disclaimer: This is a personal blog, about personal stuff, personal problems and personal relashionships. If you're looking only for professional stuff, you're wrong here ;o) Wow, it has been a...
View ArticleAsk your customers!
This is a little story about how missing customer feedback can take all value from something that seems extemely valuable at first sight. It is a story about how to provide no value at all with a...
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I had a bit of fun
Recently I tested a new app in progress that was far from done and one of the developers gave it to me in a very early stage. I enjoyed that testing so much and was so surprised about the amount of the...
View ArticleA new language, a reused test approach
The product that our team develops doesn't have much of a GUI, so testing it involves a lot of coding, for example against the API of our webservice. I have done such testing before, shortly, and had...
View ArticleExploratory testing while writing code
How often have I heard that test automation is not real testing? There are endless conversations on Twitter & co about that. There are passionate testers that get offended by people using...
View ArticleTweaking automated checks - part one
Originally this was to be a post about unit tests. Therefore I was hesitant to write this blog post. The testers that might read my blog probably won't need the knowledge as they usually don't write...
View ArticleTweaking automated checks - part two
Significance A second thing that I am keeping an eye on while writing my checks is significance of anything I use in the checks. To explain why, I'll give you an example that isn't related to code...
View ArticleTweaking automated checks - part three
Generating random data The next part of my tweaks to writing checks is drawn from a talk at the XPdays Germany 2010 by Nicole Rauch and Marc Philipps. I'm pretty bad at coming up with random data....
View ArticleTweaking automated checks - part four
Useful error messages Have you come across a check that fails with the message "expected true but was false"? Did you know what was wrong without having to investigate the check first and then the...
View ArticleResources? Not necessary!
This morning I received a message saying some "resources" were not available. That was actually about some people not being in the office today and I wanted to ask for a better wording next time. The...
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