Lisa Crispin, Author at Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

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 […]

What can testers and developers learn from each other?

September 10, 2019 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 6 Comments

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 […]

Stuff I’ve written and published elsewhere! And – the Testing in DevOps community site

June 1, 2019 / Lisa Crispin / continuous delivery, DevOps, DevTestOps, learning for testers, modern testing, webinar / No Comments

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 […]