By Ajeesh on 5-09-2017
Category: Development, Testing Tags: Testing Feature Toggle Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery
Back in the day, my team couldn’t deploy a new software version to production immediately. We had to wait because testing hadn’t finished. Or because a big feature wasn’t production-ready. Or because our acceptance tester didn’t have time to check the new version.
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By Lucas Verberne on 24-07-2017
Category: Testing Tags: Testing Community Culture
After the success of Software Testing World Cup last year, the winning team thought a Dutch version would also be interesting. Co-organized and hosted by Dutch Software Testing Association TestNet, the championship took place on May 1st.
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Category: Events Tags: Testing Event Development
On Monday the 3rd of July we would like to welcome you to join our Java practice. What to expect: Agenda 17:30 – 18:30 Walk-in 18:00 Food & drinks 18:30 Let’s do some exercises! 21:30 Wrapping up Food-wise bol.com has organized a buffet for non-vegetarian and vegetarian, with enough drinks/beers for the whole evening 🙂 Exercise Our colleague, Patrick, has three type of exercises ready. As a group we will decide at the beginning of the evening which one we want to do. The exercises are: Introduction into Testing, with JUnit…
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By Joost van Wollingen on 16-05-2017
Category: Testing, Events Tags: Testing Meetup tooling
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.
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By Joost van Wollingen on 19-04-2017
Category: Testing, Events Tags: Testing michael bolton skills
What 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 more? Michael Bolton – The balance between social & technical skills Michael Bolton says we do, but not so much to check for functional correctness—which arguably should never have been a central part of the tester’s job in the first place. We need people in a testing role to do…
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By Paul Lai on 3-04-2017
Category: Development, Testing Tags: Testing James Bach
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).
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By Joost van Wollingen on 21-03-2017
Category: Development, Testing Tags: Testing Meetup James Bach
We hosted the Techlab meetup on the 15th of March, which was a very well visited evening. James kicked off the night in style by speaking about the future of the testing role. He also went into detail on what skills make testers unique and that readiness to pick up tasks is crucial to be able to do a task well. Click read more to see the video!
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By Joost van Wollingen on 14-03-2017
Category: Testing Tags: Testing Community Tribes Guild Goals
Everybody wants to stay ahead of the game. It is no different for the bol.com testing community. Ever wondered how we manage to do that? In this post I gladly share how bol.com test engineers keep challenging and inspiring each other.
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On: 15 Mar 2017 at: bol.com HQ, Utrecht
Category: Events Tags: Testing Meetup
For years now, the role of the tester has been the topic of discussion and debate. The way we develop software in the age of Scrum, Agile and DevOps appears to have shifted the tasks and responsibilities associated with software testing for some us. Competitive markets demand a shorter time to market, without impacting quality. During this meetup we will take a deep dive into this topic, started off by James Bach, who will present his vision, followed by the visions of Xebia and bol.com. We hope to offer some…
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