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 →
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 →
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 →
“Ladies and gentlemen, due to the usual disturbances, our train will be delayed.” That was announced on my way to a surprisingly interesting certification training. So what is the point about this? Something was apparently wrong with the track for some time. And it has become the status quo for the engineer. It’s not nice,… Continue Reading →
I attended a wedding a few weeks ago. Everything was fine, maybe a bit hot (several days in the 30°C area are not that typical around here). The register office, where the official part took place, and the party location were some 30km apart. So someone organized a car to get the bridal couple to… Continue Reading →
Given I am a o2 customer and I own a Huawei G700 Dual Sim mobile phone and Sim1 is used for all data and private phone calls and Sim2 is used exclusively for job phone calls and both Sim cards are active When I select Sim1 as the active sim card for the next call… Continue Reading →