New testing tools are introduced every week it seems, but how new and useful are they really? The search for the ultimate tool seems to be a never ending quest. As IT professionals we are required to continuously stay up to date, to keep learning and expand our knowledge. Let us help you with that.
Hands-on test tooling workshops by bol.com & VX CompanyThis is the third post about our growth story. In the last blog post we elaborated on some necessary steps to take in an organizational change. We have explained that the steps bol.
Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love itWhat is testing? What is the testing role? Is testing a demonstration that a product fulfills its declared functional requirements? If machinery can be programmed to check hundreds and thousands of functions in a second, do we need testers any...
bol.com Techlab with Michael BoltonIt's not easy. But that doesn't mean it can't be done. This post is about how we played around with image recognition to find out what we can do with it.
Image recognition. Deep learning. And cake.James Bach recently ran a Rapid Software Testing (RST) workshop at bol. com and I was fortunate enough to participate in this engaging and informative three-day event. Bach is regarded by many as one of the thought leaders who reshaped the testing industry within the modern software development landscape (alongside Michael Bolton).
Rapid Software Testing: A walk on the wild sideEver since I’ve started working for a WebAnalytics company in 2005 I’ve been working on problems related to making sense of web data. One of the most difficult elements in this type of analysis is making sense of the user...
Making sense of the user agent stringLast Wednesday we had an inspiring evening at bol. com. We held Ladies that UX Utrecht meetup as part of our bol.
Ladies that UX Utrecht take over bol.comThis is the second post about our growth story. In the first blog post we introduced our Man on the Moon program; how we plan to manage a fast growing company like ours. In this second part we'll explain how we have involved all stakeholders and participants in our journey to the moon.
Our agile journey so far – Part 2: involving everyoneAt bol. com we service millions of products to millions of customers, resulting in billions of pages each year. We want to create the most effective service to our visitors we possibly can.
Big, bigger, scalableWe hosted the Techlab meetup on the 15th of March Wow! One hundred testers and developers in attendance. What a great turn out for our very first bol. com Techlab meetup, which we co-organized with Xebia's Tester Masters Series.
Video: James Bach on the future of the testing role