The Holistic Testing Model has been one of my favorite topics to talk and write about since Janet Gregory dreamed it up in 2021. There’s a good reason. People frequently contact me to with a question along these lines: “My team has agreed that we want to take a whole team approach to quality and […]
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I had the honor to participate in two podcasts recently. One is the “QA Therapy” podcast with my friends Sergio Freire and Cristiano Cunha. We chatted about ways to fit testing into DevOps. Check out their other episodes too, they’re talking with lots of awesome folks! The other is the RedHat Compiler podcast. They talked […]
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I’ve been honored recently to participate in two different podcasts. I talked with Ryan Ripley and on Ryan’s Agile for Humans podcast. We talked about pairing for various things, including presenting and writing, and discussed common challenges we see today related to testing. I’m a big fan of the Agile for Humans podcast, I learn […]
Read MoreThe 30 days of testing challenges are energizing me! Day 23’s challenge is to help someone test better. I’m going to combine that one with stepping out of my comfort zone on day 14 by sharing what I learned here. It may help you test better! Recently, my awesome teammate Chad Wagner and I were […]
Read MoreI work every day as a tester on the Pivotal Tracker team. Some people think that because I’ve written books and speak at conferences I must be a full time consultant, but my passion lies in being a member of a great team and doing hands-on testing. It’s easy for me to go around telling […]
Read MoreI can’t say it enough: it takes the whole team to build quality into a software product, and testing is an integral part of software development along with coding, design and many other activities. I’d like to illustrate this yet again with my experience a couple days ago. Recently our team has been brainstorming and […]
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