Monthly Archives: October 2012
Line up for the 18th Dutch Testing Day
Tuesday the 27th of November the 18th edition of the Dutch testing day will be held. The programme of this full day event includes 9 presentations that focus on the theme ‘Boosting the value of testing’. It also features two keynotes, from world class speakers and … Continue reading
Slides of my keynote
Last week I gave a keynote on the QA&Testing conference in Bilbao. The title of the talk was “testing for the business, its a people’s job”. The slides were not in the printed hand-outs, so the organsiation put it online … Continue reading
My impression on the QA & Testing conference
17-18-19 Oktober, Bilbao hosted the 11th edition of the QA & Testing Conference on Embedded Systems. In this video I share my impression of the event. More info: http://www.qatest.org
Let’s play Kanban
On the last event of the dutch test assosiation (TestNet) Valori introduced their fellow testers with kanban. As Egbert explaines in this video, kanban is a good framework for managing your workflow. The participant learned what this means while playing … Continue reading
No Test in Iceland
I was checking the stats of my wordpress site. It is nice to see that it is visited by people from all over the world. As I expected it is visited by Testers from the Netherlands most, followed by UK … Continue reading
DEWT2: A good way to spend the weekend
I was very pleased to attend an contribute to the 2nd DEWT workshop. This Peer conference took place on October 5-6th in Hotel Bergse Bossen Driebergen, the Netherlands. Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing (DEWT) is a workshop that falls … Continue reading
What we can learn from the Gauls (Asterix)
Column published in the QA:News. “Recently I reread some of my Asterix comics. In one of the romans try to sell menhirs to the wealthy citizens of Rome. A great advertising campaign is launched with big shows in the colosseum … Continue reading
Testnet autumn event 2012
At the TestNet event Valori gave a game session where participants learned the working of Kanban by playing the simulation game. I was game-leader for one of the three tables, but as you can see on the picture was drawn … Continue reading
Derk-Jan de Grood 