Lisa Crispin, Author at Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Starting a new job in the pandemic

July 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / Distributed Teams, hiring, onboarding, remote team members / 4 Comments

Lena Pejgan invited me to join her in her pair blogging series (see her first post for some background). We quickly decided to write about starting a new job in the pandemic – which we both did! Lena is a manager, so she has perspective for hiring new people during these strange new times. I’m […]

Needed more than ever: courage

June 21, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / career, learning for testers, pairing / 1 Comment

Recently, I misunderstood a request to contribute my thoughts on skills for testers going forward into the 21st century and wrote the following. It wasn’t appropriate for that publication, but I still would like to share it. Courage isn’t exactly a skill, it’s more of an ability or characteristic, and we need it more than […]

New Challenges in Continuous Delivery

March 15, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, continual improvement, continuous delivery, DevOps, machine learning, operability, pipelines, test automation, testability, Uncategorized, value stream mapping / 2 Comments

Continuous delivery and deployment (both abbreviated as “CD”) aren’t new concepts. Jez Humble and David Farley published their Continuous Delivery book ten years ago. Patrick Debois organized the first “DevOpsDays” conference in 2009, and created the #DevOps (also written as devops, devOps and Devops) hashtag. Of course, CD is new to many teams. There are […]

DeliveryConf 2020

February 20, 2020 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, continuous delivery, continuous integration, DevOps, DevTestOps, diversity, inclusiveness, learning for testers, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

I attended DeliveryConf 2020 in Seattle in January. I had high expectations, given the speaker lineup. It far exceeded my expectations! I took lots of sketch notes and plan to blog more about the many insights I learned. Meanwhile, you can see the presentations, AND listen to the valuable facilitated group discussions with members of […]

Educating executives about quality

December 30, 2019 / Lisa Crispin / book review, influence, Publications, software quality, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 1 Comment

“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 […]

Testing Paths

October 14, 2019 / Lisa Crispin / conferences, continuous delivery, DevOps, DevTestOps, learning for testers, Transitioning to agile, tutorials, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

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 […]