Monthly Archives: June 2016

Testing Talk – interview by Anthea Whelan of Proffesional Tester

Posted on June 29, 2016 by derkjandegrood

For the June edition of Professional Tester I was interviewed by Anthea Whelan. In the interview I was asked about the Value of testing and how current trends influence the way we operate. She also asked me what things still surprise me. Want … Continue reading →

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EuroSTAR webinar: T-shape and π-shaped testers

Posted on June 27, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Last week Jan Jaap Cannegieter and I gave a webinar for EuroSTAR. We had circa a 100 participants that tuned in to learn about survival techniques for testers. In the webinar we shared the results of the workshops that we gave … Continue reading →

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The Refinement process; Thinking ahead increases adaptively and the quality of the solution

Posted on June 14, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Refinement is an important element of Scrum. It’s the process where the product backlog items for future sprints are prepared. Experience learns that when development teams get up to steam, the refinement process becomes a new bottleneck. The development team … Continue reading →

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Successful testing in waterfall projects? Agile goes undercover

Posted on June 10, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Agile goes undercover on the EuroSTAR community pages. [image: www.reverbnation.com] With Eric van de Mark, I was having a discussion on how we can improve testing when we are working in a traditional waterfall context. Often we can benefit a lot from … Continue reading →

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Train strike? Belgium Testing Days with discount!

Posted on June 10, 2016 by derkjandegrood

Although there may be strikes, road works, security checks, and hailstorms the Belgium Testing Days is going strong. They have an excellent program with speakers such as Julian Harty, Doug Hoffman, Stuart Reid, Isabel Evans, Gil Zilberfeld and Mark Tomlinson. Why lose … Continue reading →

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