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...

At EuroStar Iain McCowatt did a absolutely fabulous “soapbox” speech on ISO29119. Must see!

In the October edition of Testing Trapeze my experience report “How I became a rapid software testing trainer” is published. It has been an amazing journey! When I started this journey, I thought i...

Yesterday the wonderful people from Lucky Cat Tattoo put a piece of art on my arm. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. This was the ‘farewell message’ of the whole earth catalog. It was placed on the ba...

Yesterday I saw this awesome video of Lars Andersen: a new level of archery. It is going viral on the web being watched over 11 million times within 48 hours. Now watch this movie carefully… The...

Some context: this blogpost is my topic for a peer conference called “Board of Agile Testers (BAT)” on Saturday December 19 2014 in Hotel Bergse Bossen in Driebergen. I love agile and I love huggi...

On Linkedin David Morgan started an interesting discussion titled: “ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 – why the fear and opprobrium“. In this discussion Cor van Rijn asked me this question: “@Huib,your commen...

At CAST 2014 James Christie gave a presentation called: “Standards - Promoting quality or restricting competition?”.  James argued that standards are produced by bodies with a commercial interest i...