Posts in Testing

The bug that changed my life

The bug that changed my life

On my way back home from ATD2022 I was doing speeds that would get me arrested in most countries, but not on specific sections of the Autobahn in Germany.

As my thoughts reflected on the past few …

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Building an Influence Framework for Software Quality

Building an Influence Framework for Software Quality

Whether due to a recent company reorganization or business as usual, being a solo tester comes with a unique and demanding set of challenges. As a community builder in the software testing industry, …

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Live Event Recap: A Survival Guide for Testers

Live Event Recap: A Survival Guide for Testers

In our recent community conversation about survival strategies for solo testers, Lisi Hocke and João Proença, share key strategies for helping software quality champions and teams …

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Live Event Recap: Benefits of API Testing

Live Event Recap: Benefits of API Testing

In our recent community conversation, we unpacked the benefits of API testing with Pricilla Bilavendran, Team Leader at Billenium  and Nithin S.S., Engineering Manager at Fave. Read our event re…

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Research for Agile Professionals with Melissa Eaden

Research for Agile Professionals with Melissa Eaden

Today, leveraging research to build for innovation is no longer a role just for product and UX professionals, but a needed asset for all members of the software development life cycle. But how do you…

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Live Event Recap: How to Lead Agile Teams During Uncertainty

Live Event Recap: How to Lead Agile Teams During Uncertainty

We are proud to share our recent conversation with agile software quality leaders, Erika Chestnut and Vernon Richards. In our TwitterSpaces event, our leaders shared practical tips for how software q…

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Defeating Imposter Syndrome Workshop

Defeating Imposter Syndrome Workshop

At Agile Testing Days 2022 in Potsdam, Germany, we facilitated a workshop, “Winning with imposter syndrome: A community effort”. In our introduction, we shared Harvard Business Review&rsq…

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Recap Agile Testing Days USA 2022

Recap Agile Testing Days USA 2022

Tutorial Days at AgileTDUSA

Two days filled with hard work, new learnings, and skills lie behind our tutorial attendees. The tutorial attendees have been challenged with various tasks and thought-…

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4 Ways QA Teams Are Integrating Quality Engineering and Continuous Testing into Development

4 Ways QA Teams Are Integrating Quality Engineering and Continuous Testing into Development

It’s an exciting time in the software testing and quality assurance space as the industry is constantly innovating – providing new ways to optimize testing and integrate it into automated…

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My favorite ATD moment Series - #3 Christian Baumann

My favorite ATD moment Series - #3 Christian Baumann

Hi, my name is Christian Baumann and I´m a software tester. During the last 15+ years, I´ve had many different roles at a lot of different companies in even more projects. But a couple of…

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Call for Papers Submission Pitfalls & How to Do it Better! Tales from a Conference Organizer

Call for Papers Submission Pitfalls & How to Do it Better! Tales from a Conference Organizer

In 2018 my colleague Sabine wrote the blog post “It always starts with an idea…”. In this blog post, she gave some great hints on how to write better proposals for conference sessi…

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Adventures in Infrastructure Testing

Adventures in Infrastructure Testing

Infrastructure Testing?

As a test manager on a waterfall project, there’s nothing more disheartening than finding out on day one of your scheduled testing that that there are major problems.…

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Your Automation is Making You Less Agile

Your Automation is Making You Less Agile

Most agile practitioners will tell you that you need to have automation. We need those rapidly running safety checks in place so that we can move quickly and not be slowed down by testing. I think fe…

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