tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15798768732244637542024-03-08T01:34:35.571-08:00Software Quality AssuranceAn approach to Software Quality Assurance based on experience and education. From the fundamentals and corner stones to the the complexities and obscure.Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-87881498464643374222022-03-28T14:27:00.006-07:002022-03-28T14:27:41.977-07:00Exploratory testing <p> BUG hall of Fame !!! </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Got to create my own </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Checked and explored </p><p>TDD </p><p>All nets have holes </p><p>Your money is no good hear - payment flow SAAS</p><p>Go ahead and grant those privileges </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Role based - all roles and no roles </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Can edit the role they wanted - SU </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Is not done only manually - similar to telephone support system </p><p><br /></p><p>Only be found via exploratory - key QA attribute </p><p><br /></p><p>Is methodical - sessions are a day to half a day </p><p><br /></p><p>What is the charter to execute and observe </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What can I vary </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mini experiments </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Observe </p><p>Debrief - capture the lessons learned </p><p><br /></p><p>Charter - can come from anywhere - just before you start to Team effort </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Target </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Resources </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Information </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Using suppot </p><p>What can I vary </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Change directly or cause to be changed </p><p><br /></p><p>Does not tie back to a written requirement - </p><p><br /></p><p>Mar rover bug</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not size of date but rather the number of files </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tell rover to delete </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Variable are fractal ….wow, I mean WOW!</p><p><br /></p><p>What or where is the most risk </p><p><br /></p><p>Play with boundaries and constraints </p><p>Times too late or to early </p><p><br /></p><p>Strings tool long too short </p><p><br /></p><p>Experiment w/ sequence </p><p><br /></p><p>Any time you can say "while", you have found a state </p><p><br /></p><p>The real world is WAY more complicated than the real world </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>While state of updating - </p><p>Observe </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Use all your resources </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If something goes wrong how would I know <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>File bugs have conversations - value in the information is taking actions on that information </p><p><br /></p><p>AS a pair or pare :D </p><p>Exploring is learning </p><p>When and who? </p><p>Everyone and always </p><p>This is a tester or QA mindset </p><p>Giving us the language </p><p><br /></p><p>Proves that a QA's job is NEVER done </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>Explore IT from pragmatic bookshelf </p><p><br /></p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-23464614634895974442022-03-28T14:25:00.001-07:002022-03-28T14:25:09.821-07:00Risk or Fear: what drivers your testing....<p><br /></p><p>Great meetup on what drives testing...</p><p> https://www.meetup.com/ministry-of-testing-santa-barbara/events/284315114/</p><p><br /></p><h2 class="text--sectionTitle text--bold padding--bottom" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #212121; fill: rgb(46, 62, 72); font-family: "Graphik Meetup", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--font-size-section-title); font-weight: var(--font-weight-semi-bold); line-height: var(--font-line-height-section-title); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--responsive-space); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; stroke: transparent;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;">Details</span></h2><div class="event-description runningText" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #212121; font-family: "Graphik Meetup", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--font-line-height-normal); overflow: hidden; transition: height 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"></p><p class="description-markdown--p" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Come join virtually and we'll meet, mingle and watch a recording of Jenna Charlton giving her session: Risk or Fear - What Drives Your Testing? together and after chat and discuss.</p><p class="description-markdown--p" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">This session dives into using risk to approach test coverage:</p><p class="description-markdown--p" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">What motivates your test coverage decisions? Fear or Risk?</p><p class="description-markdown--p" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Many teams are realizing after implementing a risk-based strategy, they continue to test from a place of fear as opposed to calculated risk. Others never reassess or renegotiate risk as their application matures. As the application under test matures, so must your strategy.<br style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;" />Key takeaways:</p><p class="description-markdown--p" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">- Discernment: Test decisions, what is your real motivator?<br style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;" />- Embracing the concept, "What is good enough quality?"<br style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;" />- Reassessing risk by integrating new data<br style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;" />- How to overcome bias created by fear and previous failures</p><p class="description-markdown--p" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; margin: 0px; max-width: 40em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;">All are welcome, so lets come together and support and learn together!</p><p></p></div><p>My notes </p><p>Treating QA as a optimization not a gate keeper </p><p><br /></p><p>Value add w/o fear </p><p><br /></p><p>Testing as an empathy exercise </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Watch devs work </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Have devs watch QA work </p><p><br /></p><p>What are people scared of because of change? </p><p><br /></p><p>Pat on the head QA </p><p><br /></p><p>Get my Team to think in this way….</p><p><br /></p><p>Scoring risk ties into Agile </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Quantify risk </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Show me the math </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>History of issues </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Complexity </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p>What did we learn? From re-evaluating risk </p><p>What test cases have what level of risk ? </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Automation is something that should have low risk </p><p>Understanding where the risk is and focusing efforts gives QA back time to focus on high impact work </p><p>How to apply human capital </p><p><br /></p><p>Good enough is OK… </p><p>Done is the goal; perfection is a myth </p><p><br /></p><p>How are re looking at risk </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Every 3 months </p><p>Automate the repeatable </p><p>People solve problems </p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-_pnICmGY</p><p>https://app.riskstormingonline.com/</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-38689748301879273382022-02-17T08:27:00.000-08:002022-02-17T08:27:17.294-08:00Why BDD isn't working and why SDD is solving the problem?<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The idea behind behavior driven development is that testers are able to verify the product, prevent bugs and reduce cost. Because the product is built using coding practices that put testing upfront in the process. This is supposed to accelerate deployment and maintain the quality of software products by allowing software developers engineers in test (SDETs) to build frameworks to verify the behavior defined by product owners and developed by software engineers. </span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-f6e701fa-7fff-0f53-edbd-91059f04b51b" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">So why is it that the more automated tests we build the more they fail, the more maintenance they have and ultimately creating noise in our quality metrics; reliability, maintainability, usability, security and so on: </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Software engineers build software and are not particularly good at writing tests. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Product owners and manual testers do not read code they read natural language </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The more the product evolves the more complex the testing framework the more likely the tests are going to require maintenance, overhead and refactoring. </span></p></li></ul><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Enter Specification Driven Development, (SDD), this methodology encompasses the development style working for your Team; BDD, TDD, spaghetti code, get stuff done development by any means necessary. SDD, is changing the way we think and execute development and testing and is only possible with the evolution of machine learning and artificial intelligence in the space of quality and test engineering. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Executing tests validates the expected behavior and when that behavior changes based on a new specification the test case changes so we test again. And if we’ve broken a test in our automation framework we have to code again. With SDD the execution of the testing </span><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">IS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">what is building out the test suite for test automation and simultaneously validating the product specification all without building out an environment to have a test automation framework run where those automated tests typically won’t even be refactored until after the delivery of the new specification. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I cannot count the number of times I’ve been asked to test a deliverable but don’t have any documentation or just a couple words in a ticket, much less a test that is written by the engineer as a part of their BDD, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">not the unit test </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">but an actual test that describes the required behavior for success. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">There is no guesswork when using SDD, there is turning on the testing tool and starting your test, no need to stand up an environment, automation framework, create meetings to collaborate with business analysts, product owners and engineers to ensure that we’re automating the correct tests. Instead just start testing and reporting on the results of those tests based on the specification delivered. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In SDD product owners can read a test case just as easily as the tester or software developer, since they are written in a natural language and run as steps as the user would. This test methodology is agnostic to the development methodology. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Complex end to end tests are created as a manual tester validates the specification. In years past this was only accomplished by a quality analyst that ran the manual tests to work with an SDET to build automation around the parts of the end to end rarely covering a full end to end via test automation. </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In SDD testers are able to verify the product, prevent bugs and reduce cost, faster Because the product is built as a software engineer does what they do best and build great software. SDD accelerates deployment and maintains the quality of our software products by allowing anyone to be a tester not just an SDET and a QA engineer because the tests are written in natural language and run the same way, (go here click here, see result). </span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Testing is agnostic to the engineering practice used to develop the product</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The test can be read by anyone </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">No need for a complex environments and frameworks to support </span></p></li></ul><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Specification driven development is changing the why we think about delivering a product and the testing that goes with that. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">What happens when the product owner changes their product? In BDD all or the majority of the test cases are likely no longer useful until a refactor can take place so we end up with a lot of red, knowing that it will never go green. In SDD, your tester runs through the product re-writing the test automation as they manually test without a huge load on refactoring test code or changing the framework to match the ever changing product specifications. </span></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">With ML and AI taking over so many other areas in the software industry this is the natural next step in quality; having people that are good at what they do best, solving problems and allow the tools and software to do the rest. </span></p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-53479435043680478442022-02-03T08:42:00.002-08:002022-02-03T08:42:24.613-08:00Manager/coach/leader...what the differences and why you should know? <p> Do you have a manager, leader, or coach? </p><p>Can you tell the difference and why does that matter? </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-68664817134238597472022-02-02T21:55:00.004-08:002022-02-02T21:55:38.894-08:00What Motivates you? <p> Purpose </p><p>Autonomy </p><p>Learning </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-27760505921373370152022-02-02T21:44:00.002-08:002022-02-02T21:44:22.660-08:00Cattle versa Pets <p> I heard about this a couple years ago, (see link below) and it has changed the way I think about my QA environments. </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWgq6sd1Ols</p><p>Which do you prefer and/or are you doing both? </p><p>What tools are you using to build it out? </p><p>Docker</p><p>Kubernetes </p><p>Tugboat </p><p> </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-89012486235032958142022-01-19T19:30:00.003-08:002022-01-19T19:30:38.845-08:00Why it is important to be inclusive and diverse <p> Simply put, it is the right thing to do. I also has the added benefit of quality. </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-48663334917956205972022-01-09T08:31:00.003-08:002022-01-09T08:31:37.725-08:00Why QA? <p> Engineers are not great testers</p><p>QA is naturally collaborative; we can't work if nothing is engineered </p><p>Accessibility</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-70815334670324673232021-12-15T08:29:00.002-08:002021-12-15T08:29:26.795-08:00Agile Testing <p> <span style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-655a87e2-7fff-d4c4-bbec-c9733232c541"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #deebff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 1pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agile Test Strategy</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big picture (ten words or less to speak to what this is that we are testing)</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive behavior and set testing boundaries</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outline automation approach (typically executed after end-to-end testing) </span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test data management (need to have clean data or will any data do?)</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test data should be re-usable and accessible in non-production environments</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="4" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collaborate with your data Team and Engineering Team</span></p></li></ul></ul></ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Defect management</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UAT bug definition as agreed on by Product </span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">QA bug</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a ‘Bug’ and link to the story that the bug has been found in</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="4" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communicate to the Product owner for priority and assignment</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li><li aria-level="4" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a bug is blocking a ticket, send an email to all stake holder stating so</span></p></li><li aria-level="4" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bugs ought to be resolved in the same sprint or carried over into the next sprint with the relative ticket</span></p></li><li aria-level="4" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> If the bug is NOT resolved and the ticket needs to move to Production then we will put it in the backlog and label with #techdebt</span></p></li></ul></ul></ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Large risks to our product quality</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our mindset is one of the end-users aka anyone using our tools and products.</span></p></li></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #deebff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Value of the test plan</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #deebff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An agile test plan will harden what the customer and the Team agree on</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify gaps</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set expectations</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Details of acceptance criteria</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #deebff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Continue collaboration via reviews, syncs, standups and maybe even a demo. Expect code, configuration and product to be changing every sprint. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #deebff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quality can drive velocity in agile</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Velocity is measured by our Developers</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quality is reflected by the QA Team</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An increase in quality increases velocity</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bugs caught earlier saves time and money</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">releasing w/ no re-work due to bugs saves time and money </span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">list more bullets' or do folks get it?</span></p></li></ul></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #deebff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Who is responsible for quality ? EVERYONE. Our work is to reflect the quality that has been designed and engineered into the products that we support.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #eae6ff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is responsible, accountable, consulted and informed from the quality perspective</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #eae6ff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><insert link to QA RACI blog post here></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #eae6ff; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 1pt 0pt;"></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 24pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First QA iteration - Test Design</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 24pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask questions of the ENTIRE TEAM; product, app dev, data and/or vendors/third parties. The requested change is signed off on and prior to development or design work, QA will participate in Product meetings to understand the following, prior to coding or changes made;</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 31pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what should I be testing? What are we automating?</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With what tools will be needed? Postman, iPhone, automation, data sets, environments, …</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will be manually tested due to complexity?</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where do you expect to find issues?</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What should we explore and for how long? (main user path and edge cases, integrations, …)</span></p></li></ul></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 24pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test Requirements and testing design</span></p></span></blockquote><span><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; text-align: left;"><li aria-level="1" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 31pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is to be tested? and how…</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who is doing the testing? (Unit, functional, integration, acceptance, …)</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">defer to QA RACI link above </span></blockquote></blockquote><p></p></li></ul><li aria-level="1" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regression testing based on;</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complexity, Overlapping functionality (APIs), Value, Stability and integrated, Dependencies for automation, …</span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="1" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Out of scope</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 24pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second iteration - Story / Feature Verification</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 24pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start your testing on the defined scenarios and readiness of code</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 31pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refer back to your plan</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Team will be creating testing</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Testing will be done as development completes and data is available</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identify test cases for automation</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Update test data for QA and UA testing</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conduct manual validation</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create any stubs</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 24pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ensure the feature or changes are working as expected</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 24pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Validate component interaction / integration testing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 24pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write bugs and re-test for fixes </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 24pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third iteration - System</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 31pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complete end-to-end testing of features and functionality</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Run regression to validate prior feature are NOT broken</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ensure regression test are updated</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remove any stubbing if possible</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Continue a correct a fix defect (critical)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Update the plan with any other change and communicate to the Team.</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dependencies & assumptions</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assumptions;</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Systems are working as expected prior to change</span></p></li><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skills and time to complete the testing need</span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which Teams are developing what</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dev, Vendor, Data, Product, … </span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></li></ul></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test data</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: what specific types of data will we need</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mock data, Stubbed data</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Production ‘like’ data (NPPI removed)</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DO NOT USE REAL USER information.</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="3" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: square; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Customers private data will NOT be used for testing as it s private.</span></p></li></ul></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #fffae6; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-left: 24pt; margin-top: 25pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tech debt - what’s that? Credit debt analogy </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 32pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test acceptance Criteria</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do we have what QA needs for us to start?</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: 24pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 1pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Product/Dev/EDE review and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sign off </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the testing plan</span></p></li></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.0568; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #172b4d; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /></span>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-88071488176350683362021-12-14T10:15:00.001-08:002021-12-14T10:15:55.118-08:00How I've learned to code <p> Being dyslexic has meant that my approach to learning has taken an un-traditional approach </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-86115894363648520082021-12-07T09:23:00.003-08:002021-12-07T09:23:46.832-08:00Me as a manager <h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-family: arial;">This is Strange </span></b></span></h2><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7da3b93-7fff-55e0-46f9-d370262b7621"><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; text-align: left;"><li aria-level="1" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We'll learn more about each other organically</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is intended to quickly mention a few things to better understand me </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is not a presentation, but an info deck (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Infodeck.html) </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part of having this be known by the team is so that you can all hold me accountable for my actions </span></p></li></ul><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What I do</b></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-b2a98ef4-7fff-c187-bebd-e46d88f97193"><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attract and Retain World-Class Talent (that's you!)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set context and provide clarity </span></p></li></ol><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I do something that negatively impacts my ability to retain you, tell me, (or if you’re more comfortable my boss), ASAP. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I do something that feels more like telling you how to do your job rather than setting context, tell me ASAP. </span></p></li></ul></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How I approach my job</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d7baa5fe-7fff-c749-4922-6d6c34ba25df"><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Autonomy </u>- you decides how you do your work we each own what we do</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Learn </u>- continue to learn and do better for yourself and for the Enterprise be open about what you don’t know and be willing to learn</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Purpose </u>- Align your work with a high power, customer, Team, OKR, …</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are the Team that can change the way the world uses software </span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></li></ul></ul><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Stay Frosty, (agile) </b></span></span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Document how you take in work; what’s most important and done first </span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grooming, planning, limiting work in progress...</span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have retrospectives; when things are good and when thing are not so good</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And learn from them </span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And learn from them, and learn from them </span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Limit the Work In Progress (WIP)</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you don’t limit the work your doing you’ll end up doing all the work. </span></p></li></ul></ul></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Transparency </span></span></h2><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-acafb2ad-7fff-67c3-04d0-fa387b7fdd19"><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I work to be as open as possible about what’s going on with our team, department, and the organization </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My calendar is public, update to day and very few events are private</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This company may require me to not tell you about something before a certain date (e.g. stock option plan changes which managers may know a week before they were announced).</span></p></li></ul><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I bias toward transparency and candor. You can ask anything. Most of the time, I'll answer. Rarely, I won't. I'm committed to </span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">never </span><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lying to you.</span></span></div></span>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-57151650897004524692021-12-07T07:48:00.001-08:002021-12-07T07:48:07.939-08:00Full stack QA <p> What is a full stack QA ? </p><p>Manual tester and SDET? </p><p>Test the front, back, middle and side to side? </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-77423384106261927762021-12-07T07:47:00.004-08:002021-12-07T07:47:25.668-08:00Tools, tools, tools and yes more tools <p> Docker, Kubernetes like peanut butter and jelly</p><p>Selenium web driver </p><p>Maven </p><p>Jenkins </p><p>list more here later </p><p> </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-90056751632758551642021-11-19T13:15:00.001-08:002021-11-19T13:15:35.736-08:00Mock interview <p> https://youtu.be/Jm6FHfodSbg</p><p><br /></p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-73169469998259348352021-11-15T23:03:00.002-08:002021-11-15T23:03:09.511-08:00Testing is a cog in the QA machine <p> Tell me I'm wrong? Testing is only a cog in the quality machine. There are so many other aspects of what is comprised of quality, user experience being the first that comes to mind that may be exposed by testing but is still something that must be reflected on if we're talking quality. Telemetry is another; how are we measuring the thing that matter when it comes to quality? </p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-77366007001731155152021-10-01T08:10:00.001-07:002021-10-01T08:10:07.426-07:00<p> IT QA is NOT the same as Software QA</p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-28887559486772551002021-09-12T11:06:00.002-07:002021-09-12T11:06:11.573-07:00Falling back and building back up In 2017 I was determined to leave IT finance; I had enough of Banking and Mortgage, so I took a nice long break spent time w/ the family and our new one year old. And found my dream job; I mean literally after interviewing I had literal dreams of working there; walking on the bluffs and solving complex software quality engineering problems, (don't judge my dreams). <div><br /></div><div>Over the course of 2018 my commute was over an hour long even with a few speeding tickets, BUT it was worth it. I loaded up every leadership book I could listen too and bought in hook line and sinker to my new gig's philosophy went from 1990's on premise infrastructure all .NET with Test Professional, Selenium web driver/C# and MS Office to AWS, ruby, Cyprus, jira, confluence and Google office. The rate of learning, lack of sleep and stress had my my skin break out in eczema that a still have today, i had put on weight, even though we had on-site yoga and gyms w/ my commute I would sacrifice the work out to see the family, I knew I had just a year to do this before we could find a place closer and move, which the awesome company I worked for was paying for. </div><div><br /></div><div>By the start of 2020 we moved into our new place w/ my commute 20 minutes away and my wife working from home we were set to crush the next 5 to 10 years; until the pandemic and getting laid off. My first week to work and was meeting w/ our new VP of Data when we got the news that we've all be working remote till this pandemic blew over. And by July we could see the writing on the wall engineering pivoted to an SDET model and 80% of QA was let go including myself. </div><div><br /></div><div>And of course no one likes being let go in the middle of a pandemic but I took my severance, my stocks and got another gig BACK in mortgage and Finance without missing a day of work or change in salary. </div><div><br /></div><div>A year later 2021, and I'm CRUSHING what I do but back in an industry that I could barely wake up too and head to WORK just a few years earlier and a pandemic later. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-50737152356167291732021-08-21T11:58:00.001-07:002021-08-21T11:58:02.814-07:00Who's wants to engineer testing verses those that want to engineer quality? <p> </p><p><br /></p><p>Who's wants to engineer testing verses those that want to engineer quality? </p><p><span style="text-align: center;">Testing is NOT Quality, only ONE tool to reflect your product's quality. </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="text-align: center;">QA = Quality Advocacy</span></li><li><span style="text-align: center;">QE = Quality Engineering </span></li><li><span style="text-align: center;">SDET = Software Developer Engineering in Test </span></li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div></div><p></p>Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-88452582751796910052018-09-16T12:50:00.002-07:002018-09-16T12:50:16.634-07:00Tested approved and failed in production; why implementation is hardTo many projects are tested and verified, signed off on by users and rolled to production with nothing but issues, why? and what can IT do about it. There are several methods for moving new products to production, like turning the test bed into Production, (though one needs to know this prior to the build out of the environment, else pitfalls will arise). <div>
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So, planning is the easy answer to this but how do you know to plan for scale and sustainability? Trust in your product and IT team. For these are the folks that, 'know' the environment and product lifecycle. </div>
Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-84892528101942915392018-08-09T11:30:00.000-07:002018-08-09T11:30:15.529-07:00What Happens in Production stays in Production....Quality Assurance, Change Management and Application Support, Or the back half of continuous development.<br />
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Software products that are tested to meet the business/product owner needs and then moved without disruption, to production and supported for its life cycle ; you end up with a stable, sustainable model to move continuously and quickly on industry changes.<br />
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When you've built a QA Team and a CM Team with the right people and process the technology becomes an awesome tool to support and make the work easy.Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-38202012530272922512016-07-07T07:30:00.002-07:002016-07-07T07:30:48.387-07:00Pitfalls of Configuration Management Document all the new IT 'stuff' aka software, patches, middle-ware, hardware, network and security updates and go back and ensure all the previous documentation is updated.<br />
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Finding the elusive IT software owner...who configures this software for what it does? And then try to pull the teeth that are 'configuration items' to see if they've been documented, (which it is likely that they have not).<br />
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Do that with minimal resources, (human power) and make it happen yesterday. These are just the starting pain points of managing configuration.Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-77056234566378121152016-07-01T09:54:00.000-07:002016-07-07T07:26:29.974-07:00I brought more Testers than you did.....The more eyes the better and when those eyes do nothing but look at bug and issues and requirements all day they are trained in a way that our business testers will never know.<br />
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<br />Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-68022571507851403372016-07-01T09:50:00.002-07:002016-07-01T09:50:57.181-07:00Casandra effect - Leading QualityCasandra was cursed to know the future by Zeus with one caveat that being no one would believe her; as a leader in QA this will be the position you'll be put in on a daily basis.<br />
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<br />Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579876873224463754.post-31554504825278902732016-07-01T09:50:00.001-07:002016-07-01T09:50:17.912-07:00Rinse and repeat Who else uses the vendors you're testing for, provide them your test beds?<br />
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How to build a stage or mirror of PROD and why do that?<br />
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If dev time was 100 hour is 50 hours of QA enough?<br />
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Who will be testing? QA or The business.Jeremiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503975811544108923noreply@blogger.com0