Monthly Archives: November 2009

Exploratory Testing – Differences

Exploratory Testing is a useful approach. Personally I found a model from my past, which explains Exploratory Testing based on face-detection systems. There are three different posts in this series: Learning, Scanning and the Differences. This third entry in the … Continue reading

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Software Craftsmanship Pecha Kucha

This is my Software Craftsmanship Pecha Kucha from the XP Days Germany 2009. Since a Pecha Kucha simply consists of 20 pictures and some text in 20 seconds, I decided to put the picutre up here directly. Additionally I translated … Continue reading

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Exploratory Testing – Scanning

Exploratory Testing is a useful technique. Personally I found a model from my past, which explains Exploratory Testing based on face-detection systems. There are three different posts in this series: Learning, Scanning and the Differences. This second entry in the … Continue reading

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Cultural Infections

Beside the flu there is another infection which you may get – at your day-to-day work. Cultural habits may be a decease in some organizations. Here are some of my experiences with these cultural infections and how one can vaccinate.

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Problem-solving with First-order measurements

Today I attended a meeting at work, where I noticed a pattern. It was a problem solving meeting. Problem solving in the sense that it was identified where we wanted to get, then identified where we are and between both … Continue reading

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Exploratory Testing – Learning

Over the course of the Agile Testing Days in Berlin I realized why Exploratory Testing works. Personally I found a model from my past, which explains Exploratory Testing based on face-detection systems. After some initial feedback I decided to break … Continue reading

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Quality is not dead

Half a year ago James Bach began with a blog series about Quality is dead. I tried to get a handle on it some time ago, but there is still something striking about quality and the fact that I don’t … Continue reading

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