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 […]
Read MoreThe changing roles of testers in agile and DevOps
Joel Montvelisky and I paired to talk about how testing has changed in light of more teams adopting agile development and DevOps culture. Many thanks to mabl and PractiTest for collaborating to host this! We had a great chat about how we see the role of testers and test/QA managers, and the ways they add […]
Read MoreCucumber podcast!
Janet Gregory and I talk about testing, DevOps, DevTestOps and more with the awesome Cucumber team on this episode. I feel so honored to have the opportunity to participate on one of my favorite podcasts!
Read MoreVermont Code Camp 2018
I was honored to be ask to present at Vermont Code Camp 2018, the 10th annual VCC! I had a great day meeting so many software practitioners from the Burlington area and beyond. There were more than 200 people, including some kids, enjoying the lovely venue at Champlain College. I even met some fellow donkey […]
Read MoreBook Review: A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps by Katrina Clokie
Many of us have followed Katrina Clokie‘s blog posts and/or had the pleasure of hearing her present at conferences. Now she has compiled not only her broad experience but that of many other practitioners into this awesome book. I’ve just finished reading it and am sharing my thoughts on it here. This post is a […]
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