Shift Left While dreaded the “shift-left” approach for test engineering has provided an important lesson for future automation imitatives. With tests being automated and running continuously, they help to provide faster time to market. With tests being automated, we have a more precise acceptance criteria coverage and often a broader
A test stub is a simulator for an external system that you are not in charge of. It still happens in 2025 that systems are designed with a too big dependency on externally controlled systems. Building stubs enables a better strategic choice for the system owner.
Strategy
The feeling when (TFW) you are handed 127 requirements and need to establish a way to implement and verify them.
Security
Gaining a ISC2 CSSLP certificate in Secure Development and what to do about it. The art is in understanding the frameworks so much to be able to tailor them to the culture and risk appetite for the company at hand.
Security
Let's help make the implementations more resilient and functional. As always.
LLM
Would I be more effective with an LLM? Probably not, no. Maybe I just haven't seen The Emperor's New Clothes. I have seen the Stochastic parrot - that don't impress me much... Sigh.
Resilience
How hard is it for you to pull the plug for your IT services and move elsewhere? It's not a matter of when you need this - but how prepared you want to be.
ChangeManagement
Days Since it was a PEOPLE PROBLEM: 0. Not DNS. Not solvable by technology. But about biases, behaviour and all the other things that make us human.
Compliance
I can understand why delivery teams would seem overwhelmed by the volume and think that it's a hindrance in delivering software solutions in a modern way. One way to enable the delivery teams with security and compliance know-how is to have them supported by a Compliance Coach.
WardleyMapping
Understanding the landscape is critical whether you're facing any new situation. One technique that I consistently use is Wardley Mapping. Let me share with you a concrete example to visualize the landscape.
TeamTopologies
What matters is everything around the output - not the procedure/guidance/assessment itself. The way you wire your interactions with others is key to your team's success.
Compliance
Risks, Questions and Requirements are surely part of the tester's hierarchy of needs. As I am exploring new fields, I am seeing how these needs are also a key part of other competence areas' daily needs.