Here are the slides and the transcript of my Agile Testing Days 2019 talk on the meaning of meaning: Imaging the following: An old office building in the vicinity of a big German car manufacturer. There is a meeting room, you know, one that’s been furbished a few decades ago. A lot of oak on… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
I attended a meeting of the Software Test User Group Hamburg last week, which was an open discussion on how testing and the role of testers have changed in agile contexts. I won’t go into detail here on the “Quo vadis, QA?” part, but there was a statement during the discussion that I would like… Continue Reading →
It’s that time again, a major football tournament is ahead and teams are busy preparing and playing friendlies to test players, tactics and skills. Yesterday Germany played Hungary and this isn’t really the clash of titans it was 60 years ago. During the game players repeatedly showed and articulated their disagreement with the referee’s decisions…. Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
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. &… Continue Reading →