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Getting home talk me even longer, who would have guessed that 2cm of snow would let European transportation break down? Anyway, - [How to use TestSphere for retrospectives](http://www.testknight.de/how-to-use-testsphere-for-retrospectives/) - Being a testmanager and a scrum master, I was thinking about how to use the TestSphere deck not just for testing themed activities but for regular team or sprint retrospectives as well. My retrospectives usually go along the pretty popular five stage model: 1. Set the stage 2. Gather data 3. Generate insight 4. Decide - [State of Testing 2018 Survey](http://www.testknight.de/state-of-testing-2018-survey/) - 2018 is here. And of course the guys over at PractiTest are conducting a state of testing survey in 2018 as well, which I urge you to participate in. If you already know about it or not, doesn't really matter. Data science, machine learning and the likes are becoming more and more visible in all aspects - [How to use TestSphere for Lean Lunch](http://www.testknight.de/how-to-use-testsphere-for-a-lean-lunch/) - This short blog post is about how we used TestSphere to facilitate a Lean Lunch session. - [TestBash Germany - O'zapft is!](http://www.testknight.de/testbash-germany-ozapft-is/) - This is a short review of the splendid inaugural TestBash Germany conference. Or you could also say that this is the story of how "I wonder what CFP works like" became standing on stage and giving a talk at a testing conference for the first time ever. Manchester 2016 was my first TestBash ever and - [Information sources for testers](http://www.testknight.de/information-sources-for-testers/) - Information sources for software testers as collected at #qscamp17 - [WASCID](http://www.testknight.de/wascid/) - WASCID is a heuristic (and yes, a mnemonic) that helps me identifying regression content when doing an impact analysis of a new user story. Or in other words: What the hell could possibly be broken when we do this? WASCID stands for Workflow Audience Scenario Code Interface Data Every of these aspects is looked at - [Teaching testing to developers](http://www.testknight.de/teaching-testing-to-developers/) - The challenge Teach a team that has been heavily reliant on a single tester the basics of agile testing in half a day. Fun part of the day: planning an in-house workshop on agile testing. pic.twitter.com/lRafDLinaK — Christian Kram (@chr_kram) 23. Februar 2017 Since I am not the first one to do so, I - [Exploring the HoloLens](http://www.testknight.de/exploring-the-hololens/) - I had the chance to get a glimpse at the Microsoft HoloLens last week, which is - as wikipedia puts it - "a pair of mixed reality smartglasses". As I had to fight with my 16 year old nephew for usage time (which I lost of course), I ended up with about an hour of wearing the - [My personal performance #30daysoftesting challenge days 20 to 31](http://www.testknight.de/my-personal-performance-30daysoftesting-challenge-days-20-to-31/) - What time is it? Game time! Well, almost, it's time for the latest #30daysoftesting challenge. Again organized by ministry of testing, this time with some support of the PerfGuild. Which leads us to the topic of this challenge: performance testing. Instead of posting a blogpost afterwards, I decided to start one right from the beginning - [My personal performance #30daysoftesting challenge days 10 to 19](http://www.testknight.de/my-personal-performance-30daysoftesting-challenge-days-10-to-19/) - What time is it? Game time! Well, almost, it's time for the latest #30daysoftesting challenge. Again organized by ministry of testing, this time with some support of the PerfGuild. Which leads us to the topic of this challenge: performance testing. Instead of posting a blogpost afterwards, I decided to start one right from the beginning - [My personal performance #30daysoftesting challenge](http://www.testknight.de/my-personal-performance-30daysoftesting-challenge/) - My take on the #30daysoftesting challenge by ministry of testing on performance testing days 1 to 9 - [Testing Barcamp in Hamburg](http://www.testknight.de/testing-barcamp-in-hamburg/) - New software testing barcamp in Hamburg, 01.09.17-02.09.17. #qsbc17 - [Prototype theory in software testing](http://www.testknight.de/prototype-theory-in-software-testing/) - This is a topic I have been thinking about for quite a while. Every now and then I stumble about things related to software testing (e.g. in my last post) that remind me about something called prototype theory. What is prototype theory then? Prototype theory is a theory (who would have guessed?) about mental representation - [Communication in Software Testing](http://www.testknight.de/communication-in-software-testing/) - Introduction This post is the first in a three part series about communication and natural language in the context of software testing and software development in general. This will be done taking the register approach the way Douglas Biber and Susan Conrad proposed it into account. I will not conduct a full-fledged register analysis, but - [Gherkin Grammar](http://www.testknight.de/gherkin-grammar/) - I have been digging into BDD lately. There are some good readings on cucumber and jbhave (and probably a ton of other tools), giving examples and syntax descriptions of the different phrases and keywords used. I couldn't really find a proper description focusing on gherkin in terms of how different phrases are aligned and supposed - [Runnin' the show](http://www.testknight.de/runnin-the-show/) - Some will have noticed that I tweeted some Dick DeVenzio quotes during the last days: "What is said and what is meant and what is understood can be three very different things." Dick DeVenzio — Christian Kram (@chr_kram) 19. Januar 2015 "If you are doing all things yourself or not getting them done at - [Holiday reading](http://www.testknight.de/holiday-reading/) - Review of three books related to software testing or agile: Impact mapping, Commodore A company on the edge and Improving agile teams - [Book review](http://www.testknight.de/book-review/) - It's been a while since my last book review. But here we go again. There are some books I read during the last weeks/months and I really think these are worth having a look at. Keogh, L.: Behaviour-Driven Development Patton, J.: User story mapping Daoust, N.: UML Requirements Modeling for Business Analysts Crispin, L. & - [Semantic roles](http://www.testknight.de/semantic-roles/) - Oh, no! Another semantics post. Well, yes. Since semantics is at the core of many misunderstandings, it's worth looking at it from just another perspective in order to see if your meaning is my meaning. When speaking of semantics and meaning, we need to distinguish between words that carry meaning and those that are primarily used - [State of Testing 2017 Report](http://www.testknight.de/state-of-testing-2017-report/) - You did participate in the 2017 state of testing survey, didn't you? Well, even if you did not, the report has been released last week. The guys over at PractiTest did a great job again and it is even better to hear that the number of participants has risen again to over 1600, so there - [My favorite podcasts](http://www.testknight.de/my-favorite-podcasts/) - Top 5 podcasts, software testing podcasts, agile podcasts, #trypod - [Sharing the duty](http://www.testknight.de/sharing-the-duty/) - getting everyone involved; sharing software testing tasks between developers and testers. - [different blog stats](http://www.testknight.de/different-blog-stats/) - Using AntConc to build a concordance and analyze the language of my blog i terms of frequency - [Playing the TestSphere game](http://www.testknight.de/playing-the-testsphere-game/) - Yesterday I attended the #STUGHH test meetup in Hamburg and the topic was "Games of Quality". And of course I had to bring my TestSphere deck (which I was lucky enough to have been presented by the creator at TestBash. Thanks, Beren!) as I was rather curious to finally test the TestSphere game (lame pun - [All your meaning are belong to us](http://www.testknight.de/all-your-meaning-are-belong-to-us/) - linguistics, semantics, meaning, compounding, endocentric, exocentric, wordformation, software testing, DevOps - [State of Testing 2017](http://www.testknight.de/state-of-testing-2017/) - "Same procedure as last year?" "Same procedure as every year!" "Well, I'll do my very best." Even if you don't recognize those quotes from a highly popular (well, at least in Germany) new year's eve television show, it's that time of the year again to say happy new year and start thinking about throwing - [TestBash Manchester](http://www.testknight.de/testbash-manchester/) - TestBash Manchester software testing conference travel report - [Autosuggestion](http://www.testknight.de/autosuggestion/) - In this short post I will describe two methods of autosuggestion that I used successfully when coaching basketball. It's a post I have been contemplating for a while now, wondering if it had any value in the field of software testing, but while hearing Kim Knup's great talk on positivity at TestBash, I couldn't help - [Job hunting](http://www.testknight.de/job-hunting/) - I can't believe that it has been 6 months since I started my new job over at MACH AG. So it is maybe time to reflect on my experiences while looking for a new job. The outline for the job I was looking for were pretty clear (well, at least to me): Greater Hamburg/Lübeck area agile - [30 days of testing](http://www.testknight.de/30-days-of-testing/) - Review of the 30 days of testing challenge with software testing tools and links. - [Changing my reading habits](http://www.testknight.de/changing-my-reading-habits/) - Let's face it, testing is all about knowledge. Acquiring knowledge, having knowledge, providing knowledge, sharing knowledge. I will exclude specific domain knowledge for this blog post, not neglecting it being of utmost value. This post is about testing knowledge and its acquisition. For me an important part of acquiring knowledge is reading blogs. There are - [Test automation day](http://www.testknight.de/test-automation-day/) - Review of the software testing conference Test Automation Day 2016. Rotterdam, TADNL. - [Communication channels](http://www.testknight.de/communication-channels/) - keeping the balance between possible communication channels and managing the number of communication channel is a key for successful communication - [Don't let complaining distract your focus](http://www.testknight.de/dont-let-complaining-distract-your-focus/) - How complaining negatively affects your work. - [Automation and autonomous driving](http://www.testknight.de/automation-and-autonomous-driving/) - Software test automation: why autonomous driving resembles test automation. - [Team bonding](http://www.testknight.de/team-bonding/) - Three exercises for team boding. How to become aware of being dependent on each other. - [State of Testing 2016 Report](http://www.testknight.de/state-of-testing-2016-report/) - The long awaited State of Testing report has finally been released. So be sure to check out the results here. I think those are quite interesting and well presented. And since it is about testing, you might actually find a bug in there ;) - [4 approaches to understanding user stories](http://www.testknight.de/4-approaches-to-understanding-user-stories/) - Four different approaches to reading and understanding user stories are explained. Methods of literary studies applied to software development. - [Software Test User Group Hamburg aka monkey business](http://www.testknight.de/monkeybusiness/) - Monkey business is not just not a Skid Row song from the late 1980s, it was also a bit of a recurring theme of the introductory talk Lalitkumar Bhamare gave about RST and BBST at the first meet-up of the English-speaking Software Test User Group Hamburg. The meet-up was held at the xing headquarters and - [State of Testing 2016](http://www.testknight.de/sot16/) - The guys over at practitest contacted me if I might become a collaborator for the state of testing survey and well, of course I want to and feel humbled by the request! So what is the survey about? Well, as the name already suggests it is about the state of testing as a profession. This - [comparison of foundation courses](http://www.testknight.de/comparison-of-foundation-courses/) - Having completed both the BBST and ISTQB foundation levels, I feel like giving a comparison of both courses and certificates. This is not going to be one of the ISTQB bashing posts, but I rather want to point out strengths and weaknesses of both courses in case you are undecided which one to take. I - [BBST foundations revisited](http://www.testknight.de/bbst-foundations-revisited/) - This is a more in-depth review of the BBST foundations class I took from October, 16th to November, 14th. Actually this blog was supposed to have three major paragraphs dealing with the general experience, how heuristics help me as a product owner and a comparison between BBST and ISTQB foundations, but I think that the - [One year of blogging](http://www.testknight.de/one-year-of-blogging/) - Oh, wow. It's been one year since I started this blog and joined twitter. I guess that justifies some kind of retrospective. Why did I actually start at all? Last year I read the book Branding yourself by Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy. Since I was kind of disappointed with my working situation at that - [BBST foundations in figures](http://www.testknight.de/bbst-foundations-in-figures/) - I attended the BBST foundations course recently, which means this in figures: 1.000.000: number of new ideas that popped up 458: unread blogposts on my rss feed 81: hours spent on the course overall 27: days of learning 20: students 18: students that really participated 11: number of colleagues I recommended the course to (which - [introduction to whole-part-whole teaching](http://www.testknight.de/introduction-whole-part-whole-teaching/) - In the post I will give a short introduction to a teaching/learning method called whole-part-whole and how this is paralleled in agile software development. I was first introduced to the whole-part-whole method in a basketball coach certification course (yes, there are certifications outside of IT...). The guiding question was how complex content like game plays - [A bug is a bug is a bug](http://www.testknight.de/a-bug-is-a-bug-is-a-bug/) - "Ladies and gentlemen, due to the usual disturbances, our train will be delayed." That was announced on my way to a surprisingly interesting certification training. So what is the point about this? Something was apparently wrong with the track for some time. And it has become the status quo for the engineer. It's not nice, - [Personas](http://www.testknight.de/personas/) - In this post I will outline what personas are, how they can be created and the advantages using personas in requirements engineering and software testing offers. Personas are representatives of users, each representing a certain user group. The interesting thing is that these can be used in requirement engineering and testing alike. Each persona has - [Prioritize](http://www.testknight.de/prioritize/) - Prioritizing features and tests. Start with important things first. - [WT113: Test Modelling an application](http://www.testknight.de/wt113-test-modelling-an-application/) - I attended a weekend testers session on test modelling yesterday and tried to sketch along. Yap, no picasso, but quite close on an abstract level...well, maybe it makes sense in combination with the chat protocol. It will give some detail on what models actually are (representations) and how you can model an application - notepad - [No, it is not just semantics!](http://www.testknight.de/no-it-is-not-just-semantics/) - From time to time, mostly when discussing, you will hear someone say "This is just semantics!" implying that a group should get back to topic and not loose itself in details. I really hate that phrase! And let me tell you why. As I pointed out in my post on communication the content or meaning - [My java](http://www.testknight.de/my-java/) - I recently finished a four week online course called "introduction to java" to get some more grip on my programming skills. The course was provided by the Hasso-Plattner institute of the University of Potsdam, which offers open courses free of charge from time to time. Some in German, some in English and even a few - [bug cascade](http://www.testknight.de/bug-cascade/) - Given I am a o2 customer and I own a Huawei G700 Dual Sim mobile phone and Sim1 is used for all data and private phone calls and Sim2 is used exclusively for job phone calls and both Sim cards are active When I select Sim1 as the active sim card for the next call - [I am not a clicking monkey](http://www.testknight.de/i-am-not-a-clicking-monkey/) - There are things from time to time that make me take a stance for testing. 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I will not conduct a full-fledged register - [Communication in Software Testing: Waterfall](http://www.testknight.de/communication-in-software-testing-waterfall/) - Introduction This post is the second in a three part series about communication and natural language in the context of software testing and software development in general. This will be done taking the register approach the way Douglas Biber and Susan Conrad proposed it into account. I will not conduct a full-fledged register analysis, but - [Weekend API testing](http://www.testknight.de/weekend-api-testing/) - This is just a quick post about yesterday's weekend testing Europe session about API testing. It was the first time I attended any of these events and it was certainly worthwhile. 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I have been a basketball coach for almost - [Berlin Quality Day or is mobile testing really that different?](http://www.testknight.de/berlin-quality-day-or-is-mobile-testing-really-that-different/) - I was in Berlin last week to attend ASQF's Quality Day. After a pleasant trip by coach and a not so pleasant hotel stay (I swear that the street in front of the hotel did NOT have six lanes on Google Maps...) I finally got to Fraunhofer Fokus where the conference took place. There were - [Why target audience matters](http://www.testknight.de/why-target-audience-matters/) - This is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. No, not really. It is a story to remind you for whom you develop software, the so called user. This summer I had to get a new passport as my old one would expire while being abroad. 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