Let’s Test: Session Based Testing
As you may have already noticed, we have introduced a 2-week ‘Let’s Test Session’ in our testing team. Here we meet on a voluntary basis to present and try out well-known but also less known methods around testing. Here is what happened in our newest Let’s...
Let’s Test: the Vending Machine
Our last Let’s Test session covered one of my favorite exercises: the Vending Machine. It sounds unspectacular at first, but in my humble opinion, it is one of the most creative and entertaining methods of taking a close look at an everyday test object and...
Thoughts on using ChatGPT as a software developer
As a frontend developer, I am already getting used to new frameworks popping out every second week and hype trains departing in each and every direction. Seldom a “NEW BIG THING” remains either new or big after some time. Sticking to foundations is usually enough to...
I don’t have time to learn anything while
I’m working! – But why?
“I don’t have time to learn anything while I am working!” (Pretty much every employee, every year) As Learning Consultants, we – that’s Theresa and Max – are working as specialists in the field of learning at various companies,...
QualityMinds at the re:publica 2023
This year we are finally much more active at the community events! As a constantly learning company, we decided to expand the scope of community events beyond the “classic” engineering conferences (e.g. testing, development, devops or machine learning). A...
What the Scrum Guide is not telling you: Estimations and Story Points
In the first article of the blog series “What the Scrum Guide is not telling you”, our colleague Andreas explained why the “Definition of Ready” is no longer mentioned in the latest version of the Scrum Guide. Interestingly, the same applies to the terms...
Morals & Machines 2023: Shaping a Responsible AI Future Together
What can we learn from science fiction for strategic foresight? How can we draw lessons from the 19th-century telegraph to understand artificial intelligence? How can a typewriter and diabolo be used to explore the values that matter in the application of AI in an...
What the Scrum Guide is not telling you: Definition of Ready
As a requirements engineer and business analyst, our colleague Andreas is used to digging through pages of documents. In the following blog post you can find out what he read – or rather “did not read” – from the Scrum Guide when preparing for...