Quality Engineering —1 min read
It always gets worse before it gets better

Whenever you introduce a new quality control measure, things often seem to get worse before they get better.

Quality Engineering —2 min read
Stop waiting

You never need to wait for permission to start doing quality work.

Continuous Improvement —2 min read
The lure of local optimizations

Just because you've found the best burger in town, doesn't mean you've found the best burger in the world.

Software Delivery —2 min read
Do you trust your linters?

Do you find yourself routinely, or even rotely, disabling linter rules on a case-by-case basis?

Quality Engineering —3 min read
Building Inspectors

"Of course you need dedicated testers. Don't you want dedicated building inspectors?"

Quality Engineering —1 min read
Should testing be a separate user story?

It's like mixing the eggs and mixing the flour as different parts of a cake recipe.

Quality Engineering —2 min read
Sometimes our instincts are wrong

Bugs are painful, but then rather than avoiding them, let's make sure we're prepared to address that pain quickly.

Quality Engineering —2 min read
What does a green test suite mean?

A passing test suite means the experiment can begin.

Quality Engineering —42 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 136: Where do bugs come from?

Zombies, podcast automation, and where bugs come from.

Quality Engineering —1 min read
Different places to test your code

Tired of waiting for the only test environment to become available?

Software Delivery —2 min read
Make the problems painful

Avoiding pain often prevents us from improving something important.