Proud to be a tester

June 22, 2007 in philosophy, software, testing

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 [...]

steppendog = Steppenhund

June 14, 2007 in errors, language, software, testing, translation

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 [...]