When working with our mission of creating an organization wide test strategy I was thinking about quality related problems we have in some projects. I realized that the expected quality is not explicitly stated anywhere. This means neither customer nor development team are aligned about which level of quality is expected to be delivered when [...]
Sigurdur Birgisson
My name is Sigge, and I am originally from Iceland. I work as a Test consultant at Jayway. I am a dedicated tester with very strong feelings for the agile values and principles, always having the user in mind when carefully testing a product without wasting resources on unnecessary things. I am very communicative in my work, and always want to involve as many people as possible for the most qualitative results in the project. In my communication I am always keen on drawing out the knowledge and wishes from any team member or customer for visualizing towards the project goal. I am eager to learn everything that comes in my way, and one big source of knowledge is the testing community of which I hope to take part of. I learn alot and very easily from others’ experiences, so I really want to share mine as well. Please question me in comments or on a blog of your own.Working with expectations – Software quality characteristics game
April 10th, 2012 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Testing, Tips & Tricks
Tags: games, software quality characteristics, tools
Elaborating on DET – ETDD evolving?
January 9th, 2012 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Agile, Testing
I got some positive response about DET that I wrote on my blog and in my CAST session proposal, so I thought I would elaborate a little on where I think this could be going. I will probably cover more hands on aspects in the coming weeks, but I really want to explain a vision I have around [...]
Tags: customer collaboration, DET, developers exploratory testing, ETDD, exploratory testing
Developers exploratory testing – Expanding its value
December 17th, 2011 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Testing
There is a common practice in our company to perform Developers Exploratory Testing sessions, explained by my colleague Davor here. The cool thing is that this way of performing higher level testing has actually become accepted by our developers, and they really enjoy it. In my current work of developing our organization wide practices for quality, I have [...]
Tags: DET, developers exploratory testing, exploratory testing, iOS, ipad, iphone, team
Organization wide test strategy – Step1 – Deriving our quality values
December 1st, 2011 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Testing
Our company has moved more from delivering individual consultant services to taking whole in-house product commitments delivered as a service to our customers. During the last months we have also been in a process of re-evaluating the core company values. Through this values work it has been clear that we want to feel proud about the quality delivered to [...]
Tags: agile, customer collaboration, quality
CAST 2011 – Testing competition with Happy Purples
August 22nd, 2011 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Testing
First of all, Ill have to report a bug in James’ blog post. We only got $23 for the worst bug report award.=) Then I would like to thank for the fun competition James set up, it was really a learning experience and in retrospect I would maybe have put even more effort in the [...]
Tags: CAST, conference, exploratory testing
Collective note taking – More value from your test notes?
June 16th, 2011 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Testing, Tips & Tricks
For quite some time now I have struggled with making note taking a natural part of my personal progress while testing. And well, I can say that it has really made impact on many other aspects of my work in other situations as well. I am actually quite proud to say that it has made [...]
Tags: note taking, team, testing
Iphone app testing and bugs
September 21st, 2010 by Sigurdur Birgisson — Testing
Some 1-1,5 years back, when the iPhone 3G had made such a success in Sweden, to develop apps for it got to be a hot potato in the software development business. Everyone wanted an iPhone app for their product/company, and we were not late to adopt this need and make it happen. Now we are [...]
Tags: bugs, exploratory testing, iphone
