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… Continue Reading →

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… Continue Reading →

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… Continue Reading →

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… Continue Reading →

Testing Barcamp in Hamburg

Woohoo, there is a new barcamp in town: Software testing #barcamp in hamburg! Will you be there, too? https://t.co/Oz3YXgWRQb #stughh — Christian Kram (@chr_kram) 5. Juli 2017 I have been to a few barcamps and the only ones that had a testing background are the one’s accompanying those great TestBash conferences. There are a few… Continue Reading →

My personal performance #30daysoftesting challenge

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… Continue Reading →

Holiday reading

I spent a few days on the beautiful island of Tenerife. Except from jumping into the Atlantic and having a sundowner occasionally, I caught up on my reading list, which I want to share with you. Impact mapping It’s the book to the website! Well, at least kind of. The books provides deeper insight on… Continue Reading →

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… Continue Reading →

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… Continue Reading →

My favorite podcasts

I started to listen to podcasts a lot more recently. Mostly while taking a walk during my lunch break or while working out in the gym. Podcast have not supplanted blogs as my main source of information, but have taken a prominent role and become a welcome addition.  I would even go as far as… Continue Reading →