As a basketball coach I would face teams from time to time that had a premium scorer. Given the rules today, even a premium defender would not be able to check that scorer in a 1:1 situation. Even if he could, chances are high that he needs a break from time to time. The key was… Continue Reading →
I recently stumbled upon a tool called AntConc in an archive-folder on an old external hard drive and couldn’t help but analyze my blog with it. So, what is AntConc anyway? It’s a linguistic tool to analyze to corpora (or text collections) by building concordances, which again can be analyzed in terms of word frequency,… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
Sometimes it seems to me that software tester in general have a certain nag for linguistics and semantics in particular. Just have a look at all those testing Vs checking and DevOps articles (I’ll come back to the latter discussion later). Which is not overly surprising as semantics is about meaning, which on the other… Continue Reading →
“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… Continue Reading →
Back in the 1990s I was part of the PC demo scene. If you haven’t heard about that, well, you missed out on something. It’s about people creating real time animation, often within file size limits of e.g. 64kb. At so called demo parties people come together to meet other like minded people and generally have… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
The guys over at the Ministry of Testing proposed a 30 days of testing challenge for july. If you are somewhat interested in testing and out on twitter you will probably have stumbled upon the #30daysoftesting hashtag. If not, well you missed out on something! In a nutshell: The challenge was to perform a certain… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →