If you came to know how TestSphere can help you lose weight, sorry, but I haven’t figured that out yet. This short blog post is about how we used TestSphere to facilitate a Lean Lunch session for the MACH testing community of practice. Lean lunch meets @TestSphere at @MACH_AG #TheOtherLean #lunchbreak pic.twitter.com/InqVjUhA9K — Christian Kram… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
One of my first posts was about teams and why they can be successful. To sum it up, there are five factors: A common goal rules role awareness dependency on each other for reaching goals awareness of this dependency What I want to elaborate today is how you can make a team bond more quickly… Continue Reading →
Some time ago I talked to a product owner, who wondered that certain things had not been tested, although he had written all the information down, including a whole bunch of acceptance criteria. “And everything else that I have not written down is up to testers and developers to know anyway!” This felt like a… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →
Introduction This post is the third and last 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… Continue Reading →