This is an Alex Schladebeck and Huib Schoots co-production and this blogpost was co-authored by Alex. So where you read I, you could read Alex and I. This year Alex Schladebeck and I did two keyno...
At EuroStar 2017 I did a experiential workshop with Pekka Marjamaki and Carsten Feilberg called “The Magic of Sherlock Holmes – Test Strategy in a blink of an eye”. The goal of this full day worksh...
Photo by Luis Alberto Cardenas Otaya I read a blogpost in Dutch named “Does certification have value or not?” by Jan Jaap Cannegieter. I wanted to reply, but there was no option to reply, so I dec...
This post and the article have been updated on April 4, 2017. One day during a team meeting at Joep‘s previous job at a bank the Team Manager of Testing, listed a number of topics his testers coul...
At TestBash Manchester I did a presentation titled “Great Resources - A road to awesomeness”. In this talk I tried to explain how testers can become awesome. I talked about learning and testing ski...
Today I read a blogpost by Olaf Agterbosch on the ViQiT site with the intriguing title “Context Driven Clichés“. Since it is written in Dutch, I will first translate his post. Do you recognize ...
On May 11 2016 TestNet held her spring conference with “Strengthen your foundation: new skills for testers” as the central theme. They claim on their website: “TestNet is a network of, by and for t...
Test Automation is a hot item in our industry. Many people talk about it and much has been written on this topic. Sadly there is still a lot of misconception about test automation. Also, some peopl...
This survey seeks to identify the existing characteristics, practices and challenges facing the testing community in hopes to shed light and provoke a fruitful discussion towards improvement. The S...
Some time ago I was invited to talk to a group of testers at a big consultancy firm in the Netherlands. They wanted to learn more about context-driven testing. I do these kind of talks on a regular...