“Quality” is like Mom and apple pie. Ask a CTO what level of quality she wants her organization to deliver, and she’ll say something like, “The best possible quality, of course!” But what does that mean? In my experience, most business stakeholders, C-level executives, and even many managers of development organizations have only a vague […]
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We embrace many testing practices that have been around a few decades now. Exploratory testing didn’t always have that name, but software professionals were practicing it. Personally, I have been automating tests since the early 90s. And, there are always new things that help us delight our customers. Today’s technology gives us access to so […]
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At Agile 2019, Bill Wake and I paired on a workshop on the Culture and Collaboration track at Agile 2019, “What testers and developers can learn from each other”. I was thrilled to be co-facilitating this with Bill, who was one of my early Extreme Programming heroes. Doing a true workshop in a 75 minute […]
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I’ve been so busy but all my publications have been other places! My series on using visual models to form your automation strategy is on Joe Colantonio’s blog: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 DevOps.com published my article on “Getting testing bottlenecks out of your pipelines” I have a ton of blog posts and webinars […]
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I had really good intentions to blog more about things I learned at European Testing Conference, because I took pretty good sketch notes for myself. But I exceeded my WIP pretty badly between ETC and Booster Conference, and then I broke my leg. I’m making time now to share what I learned from at least […]
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I had the luxury of working on a terrific team at a financial services startup from the early 00s to the early 10s. Though we jelled as a self-organizing agile team with expert domain knowledge, we occasionally made some really dumb mistakes when deploying to production. The operations VP, Anne, wagged her finger at us […]
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I had the pleasure to participate in Booster Conference in Bergen, Norway, aptly tagged “the conference for the whole team”. Many of the highly original and engaging sessions are on video and available for free on the Program page, go check them out! Making all that content freely available is just one indication of how […]
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At European Testing Days 2018, Marit van Dijk and Lanette Creamer prompted me to do an open space session on what I learned from testing from my donkeys. It turned out really fun! I’ve learned so much from my donkeys about the importance of trust, and the value of joy. When it was time to […]
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I’m fizzing with all the stuff I learned at European Testing Conference in beautiful Valencia last week! I gave myself the gift of taking sketch notes of all the sessions I attended, so I’m hoping I can do a few blog posts about it. I have been neglecting this blog lately because I spend so […]
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