At the 27th EuroSTAR Conference in Prague, Anders Dinsen was presented with infamous award for Best Paper with this body of work. We are honoured to present another invaluable member… Read More +
Technical debt is a well-documented endemic problem within software development. However, to understand why high levels of technical debt exist within most organisations, we need to change the way we… Read More +
Things can be better. Much better. He had to find a way. His search led him to books, authors and history, including recalling childhood visits to Greenfield Village every summer.… Read More +
Line up all the successful people in the world. Take away the pedigreed and the prodigies—you know the people who are going to succeed no matter what—and the brown-nosers and… Read More +
Awarded EuroSTAR Best Paper 2017 Why do developers create software bugs, and why do testers fail to find them? Is the best way to improve the quality of our software… Read More +
Why Software Gets In Trouble? Why not just say "people make mistakes"? Why not? Because there are reasons people make mistakes, and make them repeatedly, and fail to discover and… Read More +
How can we start testing without being slowed down by the unknown aspects of a new context? When facing a new and different setting we might have to adapt to… Read More +
We humans are a learning species. It comes natural to us and just because it feels so easy to do, we are ignorant of its inner workings. When faced with… Read More +
Three words, “I don’t know“, might just be the hardest words to say in any language. We avoid saying them, scared of coming across as doubtful and uncertain. Colleagues expect… Read More +
For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in software development and testing, medicine, engineering, social sciences, architecture, and beyond. Used… Read More +
Remaining Relevant and Employable is a book for those who want to find good jobs, up-skill and do well in an interview. In this sample eBook looks at the chapter… Read More +
Edward de Bono, in his Lateral Thinking books, makes a strong connection between humour and creativity. Creativity is key to testing, but jokes? Well, the punchline for a joke could… Read More +
This eBook contains chapter 3, ‘Roles and Competencies’, from the testing book ‘More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team’. Here the authors describe how teams that succeed in creating high-quality… Read More +
Passive behaviour is a factor leading to defects, inefficiency, and security vulnerabilities in IT systems. As modern humans we mainly rely on three coping behaviours, two from our primitive past… Read More +
Paul Gerrard, gentle host of the Eurostar Conference this year, challenged me. He challenged me good. Initially I was asked to deliver “Testing in the age of distraction”, my presentation from last… Read More +
For any software-producing company, basic prerequisites to be successful in delivering good software depend on having talented people and setting smart processes. Throughout the book, a common sense approach to… Read More +
This eBook is based on Rob's popular presentation at EuroSTAR 2013 and it describes how he fundamentally changed his approach to testing in order to move from 8 month to… Read More +
This paper accompanied Zeger van Hese's presentation at EuroSTAR 2013 and was chosen as the Best Paper at the Conference. "We live in curious times. Knowledge is available at our… Read More +
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