Exploratory Testing is a useful approach. Personally I found a model from my past, which explains Exploratory Testing based on face-detection systems. There are three different posts in this series: Learning, Scanning and the Differences. This third entry in the series copes with the differences between face-detection and testing.
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Exploratory Testing – Scanning
Exploratory Testing is a useful technique. Personally I found a model from my past, which explains Exploratory Testing based on face-detection systems. There are three different posts in this series: Learning, Scanning and the Differences. This second entry in the series copes with the scanning.
Continue reading Exploratory Testing – ScanningExploratory Testing – Learning
Over the course of the Agile Testing Days in Berlin I realized why Exploratory Testing works. Personally I found a model from my past, which explains Exploratory Testing based on face-detection systems. After some initial feedback I decided to break it in three different posts: Learning, Scanning and the Differences. I will start with the part on Learning.
Continue reading Exploratory Testing – Learning“The biggest defect is tolerating defects.”
The headline is a quotation of Mary Poppendieck from her keynote at the Agile Testing Days conference in 2009 in Berlin. Today while reading through Jerry Weinberg’s Quality Software Management Vol. 1 I understood why.
Continue reading “The biggest defect is tolerating defects.”Agile Testing Days Berlin VI – Good at looking around
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Here is a random collection of things I noticed on the Agile Testing Days which I left out of the previous entries on it. Mostly these refer to people being good at looking around, like Alistair Cockburn pointed it out.
Agile Testing Days Berlin V – The final day
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On the final day of the Agile Testing Days my presentation was due. Since it was my first conference presentation ever, I was very stagefright about the course. Though, here is my write-up on the other presentations I visited.
Agile Testing Days Berlin IV – Testify and the Oktoberfest
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Tuesday after the lunch at the Agile Testing Days there were two Keynotes and in the evening an Oktoberfest celebration. Following is my write-up of the notes I took in that period.
From the Definition of Done to “Are we done, yet?”
In the dialog about my recent blog entry about the Definition of Done, I was able to refine my mental model about “Done”. Here is a write-up of it.
Continue reading From the Definition of Done to “Are we done, yet?”Agile Testing Days Berlin III – First presentations
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On the Agile Testing Days on Tuesday the first presentations settled off. In the meantime pictures from the conference have been put up. Here are portions of my notes from Tuesday.
Agile Testing Days Berlin II – Monday evening dinner conversations
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On Monday evening of the Agile Testing Days all speakers were invited to go to lunch from the organizators. I had the dear honor to sit next to Tom Gilb with Mary & Tom Poppendieck directly facing. Though I was not able to follow the complete conversation in-depth, I was able to get most of their points. Unfortunately I didn’t take notes on everything discussed there, but I denoted two things on the next day from that conversation.