Tag Archives: software testing

New Job! A great opportunity that I love to embrace.

Posted on September 3, 2019 by derkjandegrood

This week I started with Squerist. The last 9+ years I have worked at Valori and did many beautiful, interesting and fun things. Things that stand out among these are embedding the quality into development, setting up test strategies and … Continue reading →

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Practitest Webinar – When a Test Manager Makes a Difference

Posted on September 27, 2017 by derkjandegrood

Yesterday I gave a Tutorial. The Tutorial was hosted by PractiTest and dealt with the changing role of the Test Manager. A lively topic, judging by the large number of participants. One advantage of a virtual presentation is that all 700 … Continue reading →

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Integration testing at scaled agile projects

Posted on May 27, 2016 by derkjandegrood

On 25 May the Software-Centric Systems Conference [SC]2 conference was held on the High-tech campus in Eindhoven. During this event I hosted an interactive session where we investigated the relationship between the lever of integration and the time to market. … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers QA&Test 2016

Posted on November 22, 2015 by derkjandegrood

QA&TEST is organising the 15th edition of the International Conference on Embedded Software testing. The conference is like every year held in beautiful Bilbao (Spain), see the picture below. We, the technical committee, like to invite professionals to share their knowledge … Continue reading →

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19th Testing Retreat was awesome

Posted on September 9, 2014 by derkjandegrood

This weekend I spent my time in Denmark. Together with 10 other testers from various nations like the Netherlands, UK, US and Denmark, we settled for the beautiful Lungholm Castle, home for the 19th Testing Retreat. The Testing Retreat is … Continue reading →

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GoTestIT, a valuable source

Posted on August 27, 2014 by derkjandegrood

Today I discovered the GOtestIT site. GOtestIT.net is an up-to-the-minute news site that collects information and news. As the video proclaims, the site aims to be the add-free place for news and the guide to what people are talking about … Continue reading →

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Implementing Test Automation, a story about changing insights and experiences

Posted on June 19, 2014 by derkjandegrood

Today I gave a presentation on the Test Automation day. In this presentation I explain a simple strategy for implementing Test Automation in your organization. A simple strategy? I tell the story of my experience so far and look back … Continue reading →

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Taste wheel for testers workshop

Posted on May 15, 2014 by derkjandegrood

A common language to describe our system enables targeted strategy and clear reporting. Last week I gave a workshop in Norway for the Freetest conference on Mobile testing (organized by the Norwegian Computer Society) and yesterday I gave the same … Continue reading →

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But who is testing the spreadsheets?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by derkjandegrood

My new column, G(r)ood testing 4, is available on the EuroSTAR community pages. This months topic deals with the quality and usage of spreadsheets. It is inspired by Felienne Hermans who did great work on this topic. I made a … Continue reading →

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What a day…

Posted on April 10, 2014 by derkjandegrood

Yesterday the Dutch testing conference was held. I spoke with a lot of people, got some new ideas and exchanged experiences. My Colleague Egbert Bouman was nominated for the DTC excellence award and I got to do a nice presentation … Continue reading →

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Personal invite to the Belgium testing days

Posted on January 16, 2014 by derkjandegrood

On the Belgium testing days I will speak about techniques, methods and tools that we can adopt and adapt from other disciplines in order to make our testing more effective. This video is my personal invite for you to join … Continue reading →

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