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Building the Quality Inn

Building the Quality Inn

Building Quality In integral part of moving to a DevOps culture, at least according to the State of DevOps 2016 [https://puppet.com/resources/report/2016-state-devops-report/]. But what exactly does that mean? Sure, the report cites Deming, in particular “Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for

Nuance on leaving testing to the experts

Nuance on leaving testing to the experts

Yesterday I wrote a blog post entitled “Leave Testing to the Experts” [https://www.annemariecharrett.com/leave-the-testing-to-the-experts] to which Maaret quickly reacted online and by a post where she strongly disagreed with the sentiment. Disagreement is a very useful tool to clarify your thinking, so thanks Maaret!. It’s allowed

Leave the testing to the experts

Why is it that in a company almost everyone has an opinion and knows the best way to test? What makes so many of these people feel they know how testing ought to be performed? Business people tell me, the tester: > “You should be writing test cases and reporting

The Base Camp Heuristic

The Base Camp Heuristic

The ‘Base Camp’ heuristic is the work required to find any bug. Typically ‘Base Camp’ bugs tend to be low lying fruit and can be found quickly, especially if a tester is experienced. In the world of Daniel Kahneman [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow], these bugs are found

Testing Microservices - what do you want to know?

The following is an outline of blog post on Testing Microservices. Does it sound interesting? Vote below to get me to write it or focus on something else 🙂 Testing Microservices 1) Microservices is a concept a set of patterns, not a set architecture 2) The context in which you testing

No women speakers? No Bother!

No women speakers? No Bother!

That might surprise you if you listened the Eurostar Webinar last week where Fiona Charles and I explored the numbers of women speaking at software testing conferences. If you didn’t hear it you can now [https://vimeo.com/134959112] (Spoiler ahead it’s roughly 25%*) Considering that there are

Agile Australia and Intent based Leadership

Agile Australia and Intent based Leadership

Today I went to Agile Australia as an attendee. That’s a first for me, usually, I’m speaking. It was wonderful to go with a different purpose, which is to learn from others. Typically, if I’m speaking I’m so focused on ‘my talk’ and getting ready for