• DevOps and Software Testing.

  Most of my recent work has been with DevOps teams. While in one sense DevOps is another evolution in software development. It also introduces some new skill requirements and responsibilities into the daily routine of a tester. These diagrams tend to confuse people, hence the video... I've created a short video to highlight some of these changes and the opportunities they bring. It's not an exhaustive view of DevOps but it gives a highlight of what you could be working with.While DevOps isn't a panacea to our software development problems, I have found that empowering teams with the ability to build and use the tools they need, can rapidly improve team morale and productivity.

  10.12.2019 | 9:09 קרא עוד...

• Certainly Not!

  Behind the hyperbole of repeatedly saying that we don't know what we're doing in my talk at CEWT #7 a couple of weeks ago, my core message was that, for me:In order to be a great tester you have to embrace that not knowing. You have to be able to work within uncertainty, without being confident that anything will stand still, taking into account that your lack of knowledge of something might be the key issue. The project without uncertainty never existed and will never exist. You won't be sure you ran the experiment you thought you did, or generated the data you were hoping to, or analysed the results without imposing your own biases.Stakeholders often won't know what they really want, developers won't be sure they understood what the stakeholders said they wanted, you won't be sure that the developer implemented the thing they intended to.The company might appear confident that the bets it is laying this quarter will pay off, but they're probably based on numbers somebody plucked out of hat and then didn't look at. In any case, half of the teams are still working to finish their work from the last quarter and won't even start building new stuff until it's too late to do anything other than destabilise.So far, so standard, right?Then I realised that I've written a lot over the years about adding to that uncertainty by finding ways to generate more ideas. More ideas means more better ideas (and needs a filtering strategy[…]

  10.12.2019 | 12:38 קרא עוד...

• Five Blogs – 10 December 2019

  The (best) five blogs I read today. Check them out. Why Training Your Employees Is Essential To The Success Of Your Business Written by: Tanveer Naseer 6 Signs Your Corporate Culture Is a Liability Written by: Sarah Clayton Racing against Time with Test Automation Written by: Nick Karlsson Shifting towards Omni Testing – Part 2 Written by: Sérgio Freire Establishing an Environment Strategy for Microsoft Power Platform Written by: Denise Moran Quote of the day: “I’ve realized that the right place doesn’t mean anything without the right people” -Chrissy Stockton You can follow this page on Twitter

  10.12.2019 | 12:26 קרא עוד...

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