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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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… Continue Reading →
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… Continue Reading →