Jens Höft

What an amazing message 👍❤️☀️😍

I cannot express my feelings in words - I wish you all the best and all cancer-patients to get well soon!!

#FuckCancer

Traunsee and Traunstein, view from the Alberfeldkogel (1709m height)

Europe Cross at Alberfeldkogel, https://www.feuerkogel.info/en/summer/europe-cross

Cross at the summit of Karleck, 1582m

Dachstein Glacier, view from the hike to the summit of „Katrin“

Hiking in Austria - what an amazing landscape! We had a fantastic time here! 🏔️❤️😎🇦🇹

New record! ☺️

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A Slack message with the sender's profile picture and name pixelated. The message reads: “Christian, just saw your testing criteria excel on ACC-1527 and I am in love” and is timestamped at 2:58 PM. There is a smiley face emoji reaction with a count of 1 below the message.

The prefered kind of feedback from a programmer after they seeing your test ideas. 🤩

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It's so annoying when web pages have a drop-down list that show a list of translated country names, but sort that list using the English name. 🙄

Photo of flip chart showing the following list of gathered bumps holding us back when it comes to building secure enough products: Authentication and authorization: boring and annoying, complicated and easy to mess up Knowledge: where to even start, lack of imagination what attackers might do "We had more important things to do" Implied trust Poor observability: complex, what to consider malicious "Let's hide this - we can't use the paper trail" Unclear incident response process: what now when the heat is on Insecure defaults Regulation: just ticking boxes, overinterpreting what is sensitive data Third party tools: no insights, so many supply chain attacks Performance drops: additional auth requests Poor usability of security features: people find workarounds

Photo of flip chart showing the following list of gathered boosters helping us move forward when it comes to building secure enough products: Authentication and authorization: enabler for features Check and update dependencies through tools Knowledge sharing: helpful security team, security champions, threat modelling Awareness by example: CTFs, cheat sheets Use helpful security products - trustworthy ones Define "secure enough" and risk appetite Use metrics for the win: show progress, motivation Regular external penetration tests Do security testing yourself first Regular fire drills and dry runs for emergency cases Regulation: what data do we really need? Security features supporting user experience: SSO Iterate Standardization: don't reinvent the security wheel Competitive advantage: customers expecting level Zero trust: guardrails, limit blast radius Celebrating success stories: reinforce good practices

Joined very interesting sessions at #SoCraTes2025 today and gave two myself. "Building Secure Enough Products - Bumps & Boosters" led to an impactful experience exchange of what holds us back & what helps us move in good directions. 💡

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I love printed magazines, especially iX, c‘t and Carve Surfing Magazine! 😍 #iX @ct.de @carvemag.bsky.social

Picard morality tip: The moment you consider yourself morally superior to someone due to your genetics is the moment you prove you are not.

The North Sea under a cloudy sky. There are some waves, hardly any of the break in the open water.

Yay, I made it: The first 1km swim 🌊🏊‍♂️🌊 in the #NorthSea this year. Water 21°C, weather slightly cloudy, swimming great 😃

#OpenWaterSwimming

Wie stark beeinflusst KI das Software-Testen? Die Antworten in der Software Test Umfrage 2024 überraschen: swt.fm/raq1

banner to promote the talk by Sophie Küster at the agile testing days 2025, showing Sophie's picture and the session title "Glue work makes the crew work"

𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱.

At #AgileTD, @mllesophiepofie.bsky.social aka Sophie Küster explores “glue work” - the invisible force that makes teams actually work.

Because AI can’t onboard your teammate or make your Slack channel feel human.

➡️ tinyurl.com/486t8zsb

#GlueWork #Agile #Testing

Picard civics tip: If there is one truth, one constant that history shows us over and over, it is that resistance is never futile.

banner to promote the talk by Alan Voigt at the agile testing days 2025, showing his picture and the session title "CARDS: A heuristic for reliable API testing"

Think your API testing is solid? Think again.
Alan Voigt brings C.A.R.D.S. to #AgileTD - your new go-to for finding bugs before users do.

Get the heuristic that’s already making APIs more resilient.
🎯 Learn more: tinyurl.com/2n9vtj65

#APITesting #TechTalk #SoftwareTesting

15 years in QA taught me this:

The best testing prevents bugs, not just finds them.

Quality isn't a phase - it's a mindset that shapes every step of development.

banner showing 3 speakers of a test automation deep dive talk at the agile testing days 2025. The speakers are Richard Bradshaw, Christian Baumann & Gil Zilberfeld and the title on the banner promoting their talk is “From Risk to Assertion – Designing Purposeful Automated Tests”

Are your automated tests helping you make decisions, or just filling the CI log?

Discover how to build purpose-driven automation that starts with risk, not just code
with @friendlytester.bsky.social, @chrissbaumann.bsky.social & @gilzilberfeld.bsky.social

→ tinyurl.com/yxwpr4jh

#TestAutomation

🔐 Ready to dive deep into security testing?

Join us onsite at Agile Testing Days 2025 (Nov 25–27, Potsdam 🇩🇪) for a 3-day Security Testing Deep Dive!

Read more about it here:
tinyurl.com/uksz5vna

#AgileTD #SecurityTesting #DevSecOps #QA #CyberSecurity #InclusiveSecurity

graphic showing 3 Agile Testing Days speakers with their names and the talk they are giving in November at the event. "Identifying Patterns in test automation code"

You’ve inherited someone else’s test code, and it’s a mess.

Join Gil, Christian & Richard for a practical workshop on spotting patterns, improving quality, and making smart decisions when you don’t have time for perfection.

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#TestAutomation #AgileTesting #CodeCraft

Picard management tip: There's no need to solve hard problems alone. Admit when you need help.

How renewables are saving Texans billions A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas

How renewables save Texans enormous amounts of money.

The buildout of solar in TX reduced the wholesale price of energy by 50%.

#energysky

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AI in testing? Less hype, more useful.

In Part 5 of my blog series, I explore how AI actually supports QA teams — from test case generation to smarter pipelines.

It’s not magic. But it works.
👇

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#QA #AIinTesting #TestAutomation #DevOps #LLM #RCA

I see people using the word simple to talk about something that is genuinely complex. Complex topics *cannot* be simplified, but they *can* be explained in a straightforward manner.

Fuzzy Testing: Warum macht es Sinn, Programme mit zufälligen Daten zu überlasten? Andreas Zeller erklärt, wie man Schwächen aufspürt: swt.fm/w03g

🔐 Ready to dive deep into security testing? Join us onsite at Agile Testing Days 2025 (Nov 25–27, Potsdam 🇩🇪) for a 3-day Security Testing Deep Dive! 🚀 From bypassing MFA to hacking APIs with GPTs – this is for testers, devs & security pros who want to level up. #AgileTD #SecurityTesting #DevSecOps #QA #CyberSecurity #InclusiveSecurity

🔐 Ready to dive deep into security testing?

Join us onsite at Agile Testing Days 2025 (Nov 25–27, Potsdam 🇩🇪) for a 3-day Security Testing Deep Dive!

Read more about it here:
tinyurl.com/uksz5vna

#AgileTD #SecurityTesting #DevSecOps #QA #CyberSecurity #InclusiveSecurity

low-hanging cherries

"you're just cherry picking the low-hanging fruit."

A Launch Authority is the vital link between an emergency call and the lifeboat crew springing into action. This is the person who gives the official go-ahead for the lifeboat to launch, often under time pressure and in challenging conditions.

It’s a role of great responsibility and trust. 🙏

Picard management tip: It's okay if your second in command has a different management style, as long as you both agree on the goals.

How will AI reshape the future of software engineering? Join Richard Seidl as he chats with @kevlin.bsky.social about the realities we should expect by 2034: tul.fm/y7j2

Time for a new chapter.

When I started my German podcast a few years ago, I had one goal:
To inspire testers with fresh ideas on how to live quality and testing in their daily work.

Now it’s time to open that space to the world.

Software Testing Unleashed: www.testing-unleashed.fm

Picard management tip: Good crew members love what they do. Get off their backs and let them enjoy their work.