Quality Engineering —1 min read
We don't want heroics

The hero is the one who stays until 8pm when customers can't log in.

Quality Engineering —1 min read
Where do you find the confidence to release your software?

Think of the time you released software to production...

Quality Engineering —2 min read
Which skill is more important: Testing, or debugging?

One of these skills, if you're good at it, diminishes the need for the other other.

Quality Engineering —2 min read
What's the ideal ratio of devs to QAs?

Of course, as a consultant, I can confidently tell you: It depends!

Quality Engineering —2 min read
I just threw away a bunch of tests

I had failed to complete the "refactor" part of "red/green/refactor" several weeks ago, leaving me with some redundant tests that came back to bite me.

Quality Engineering —71 min listen
Adventures in DevOps 112: Building Code More Responsibly: A Mental Model Shift

A philosophical conversation around building code more responsibly and how ethics and accountability is to be integrated into the DevOps industry.

Quality Engineering —3 min read
How to travel light

Software delivery is a lot like traveling. Less luggage makes for a better experience.

Quality Engineering —3 min read
How expensive is a bug?

The "observation" that fixing a bug in production costs 1000x more than fixing it during design assumes a waterfall approach.

Quality Engineering —2 min read
What is a bug?

Is any failure to meet user expectations a bug?

Quality Engineering —2 min read
Do you enjoy finding bugs?

Rather than seeing code review, or QA, as a gatekeeping process, let's frame it as an opportunity to elevate the output of the entire team.

Quality Engineering —2 min read
Levels of testing

Who is responsible for unit, integration, and acceptance testing? Developers.