How this post came to be?Inspired by a tweet from @maaike and her mentioned blog post and @testpappys tweet.For some time I had similar feelings and thoughts around that topic.This is a first draft to put it out of my head and into a (digital) paper.Its not complete and raw and I will most likely […]
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Virtual reality In the world of VR, motion sickness is one of the biggest maker or breaker of an awesome immersive experience. Works with my body Immersion is *the* key factor for VR. Because if that is not the factor, maybe VR was not the right approach; maybe AR would have been more fitting? Motion
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The ominous Test pyramid While coming back from attending an awesome Automation in Testing (#AiT) workshop from Mark Winteringham and Richard Bradshaw; I came across this tweet from Mark about the automation test pyramid: Tweet from Mark Winteringham There are different styles and names of “the” pyramid; test pyramid, automation pyramid, etc. In my opinion,
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Agile Jenga Jenga ist ein Geschicklichkeitsspiel aus dem Jahre 1983. Mehr Informationen gibt es im Wiki Artikel Jenga. Agile Jenga nutzt den Spieleklassiker “Jenga!” zur Wissensvermittlung im IT Kontext. Es übernimmt die Grundidee des Turms (“Produkt”) und des Konstruierens (“Entwicklung”) in den Kontext der Softwareentwicklung. Durch die haptische Erfahrung und den spielerischen Ansatz bleibt das
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After my blog post from the perspective of an organizer, here is my barcamp experience report as an attendee. Barcamp experience, the introduction Around 40 people gathered on this Saturday and the barcamp started. Stephan Roth did a great job to introduce the Open Space format and soon after we started writing and presenting our
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A Barcamp only for quality interested people? On a Saturday? With an entrance fee? Crazy! Could that work? Was there enough passion and interest in the community? It turns it, it overwhelmingly was. The starting point End of April 2017 there was a blog post in the Hamburg Software Test User Group (STUGHH) from Georg
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Agile hiring as based on interviews we do for Tester (people who’s primary role in the team will be the testing activities). Via twitter I came across a blog post from Cassandra H. Leung (@tweet_cassandra) about Tester Interviews: Techniques and Tasks which describes on a high level, how a diverse set of techniques can be
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Social Media Tags … Part of working as an agile tester in a News environment is taking care, that the features, which impacts the spread and reach of the news articles are working, so as not to lose out on readers and followers. So whenever we have a new article type or sharing feature, I
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As part of our talk at the Nordic Testing Days 2016 about “Bake your own STWC (Software Testing World Cup)”, we presented a checklist for the different roles involved in a testing competition. If you plan to participate or organize a testing competition, this can be a guideline, what to consider and keep an eye.
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Es kommt ja häufig vor, das man Gesprächsfetzen in der U-Bahn mitbekommt. Meistens sind diese belanglos oder so „anonymisiert“, das man keine Namen oder Firmen heraushört. Heute morgen in der Hamburger U-Bahn war das leider nicht so. Die nächsten Absätze sind aus dem Gedächtnis niedergeschrieben, es waren allerdings so viele Informationen, das ich ggf. einige
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