Archive for June, 2007
I am currently putting my books in a catalog. From time to time I will extract lists ordered by themes.
Current bibliography is found here.
When I looked up Testing in Kruchten’s An Introduction to the Rational Unified Process, lately, I found a remarkable statement. A tester – out of all other persons concerned with the software development life cycle – possesses a distinguishable property. She is and has to be negatively biased. She is not striving for success [...]
My enthusiasm about computers stems from reading science fiction literature when I was young. Isaac Asimov greatly influenced my opinitions. I took it for granted that the computer should serve men. And women. Und I still believe in its virtue as a special kind of machine.
Maybe, this approach seems to be naive. [...]
Sometimes I write in German, sometimes I write in English.
I will not translate everything that I have written in German to English. Some texts might appear only in the English section.
In the software business you are well advised, if you use English as lingua franca. Sometimes, however, you have to observe local peculiarities. Special [...]


