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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Physical and mental evolution
Human evolution brought up some clever ideas how to survive in the wild. From my courses on becoming a swimming trainer, I know some parts of the physiological aspects in play when you exercise your body. While reading through Pragmatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Lizard thinking, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, Survival responses
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The Second System Effect in Software Test Automation
Matt Heusser blogged today on generating new ideas. In his entry, he cites from Weinberg’s Becoming a Technical Leader. Weinberg lists up the three obstacles to innovation – one of the three parts of his leadership model. The three obstacles … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Testing
Tagged Becoming a Technical Leader, Second System Effect, Test Automation
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The Needle Eye Pattern
Having finally read Alistair Cockburn‘s article on Hexagonal architecture I see a great covariance to my understanding and application of our enterprise system. This is my take on the Ports and Adapter pattern and how I apply it in the … Continue reading
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Software Management 0.5
Just this morning, it appeared to me, and there the solution was to all our problems. It had been there, so directly in front of my face, that I haven’t seen it, but it is so clear now. We need … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Testing, Leadership, Testing
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Testing Dojos
About a year ago, I heard about Coding Dojos for the first time. Getting back to work, I nearly immediately tried out the idea with some colleagues. The implementation was great, and we had a lot of fun. Every since … Continue reading
Posted in Methodologies, Testing
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Well-crafted and craftly tested software
A while back, I submitted my article Software Testing Craft to the Agile Record. Having coined the zeroth law of professionalism in it, ever since I heard about Uncle Bob‘s call for craftsmanship I believed that the craft of software … Continue reading
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The Deliberate Tester – Part 2
The Deliberate Testers continues. On the second half of his first day, our hero Peter is concerned about test automation. The Software Testing Club hosted this second part of my testing series on their blog. This episode is called The … Continue reading
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Testing and Management mistakes: Causes
So far, we have taken a look on how to give the right response to common management mistakes. Today, I would like to take a closer look on the underlying problems that make a test manager react to management mistakes … Continue reading
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Testing and Management mistakes: Congruent responses
This week Michael Bolton wrote a nice story about a usual situation at work where the project manager asks a tester to come in for the weekend. As I just faced a similar situation with a colleague who was asked … Continue reading
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