Category: Testing & Quality Engineering

Test Stubs as a Strategic Choice

June 22, 2025

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4–6 minutes

A test stub is a simulator for an external system that you are not in charge of. It…
The Big Hallucination

April 3, 2025

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3–4 minutes

[First posted on leading-testing-activities.ghost.io, Apr 2025 ] One of my biggest concerns with LLMs is hallucinations. While you…
Key learnings from 2024

December 20, 2024

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1–2 minutes

Key learnings from directing the testing stage on test leadership and resilience testing in 2024.
Test the Emergency Procedures

November 13, 2024

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2–4 minutes

[First posted on leading-testing-activitites.ghost.io, Nov 2024 ] Having company procedures for everything is nice. Sure, you can have…
Sprouting Testing in New Fields

November 5, 2024

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3–4 minutes

What is blocking us is the perception that our testing skills cannot be applied outside (software) testing. Of…
Leadership as an Individual Contributor

August 20, 2024

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3–4 minutes

Individual contributors can convey leadership both in roles and activities without being in the formal organizational management hierarchy.…
To go fast – Go slow

August 5, 2024

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3–5 minutes

Requirements are not something to be confirmed only once. Very few requirements mention that this should only work…
Aligning with management

June 17, 2024

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3–5 minutes

Recently, I was discussing test leadership with an experienced practitioner in the agile testing space 👋. The topic…
What If Everything Is Equally Important

June 4, 2024

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3–4 minutes

The Product Risk Analysis is biased toward functional risks. Let’s consider a broader picture of the solution under…
Enter Compliance Requirements

May 9, 2024

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3–4 minutes

We have long fought between functional and non-functional requirements in IT systems development. A new requirement character—compliance—is entering…

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