• Context Above All

  The other night I attended We Need To Talk About Testing, a panel discussion featuring Cassandra Leung, Alaine Miller, Richard Bradshaw, and Rob Meaney, hosted by Codecraft. With an audience of software crafters rather than testers, it made sense that the conversation was guided through a set of greatest hits topics including automation, the need for humans in testing, confirmatory vs exploratory, testability, the testing triangle, and observability.   The panelists spoke eloquently about all of those things from positions that demonstrated both expertise and experience, and a sense of humour.  I couldn't help thinking about Brian's mum when Richard urged us not to drive testing with the automation pyramid: it's not a strategy, it's a triangle. I was familiar with the majority of the content but I do enjoy listening to knowledgeable people speaking on a subject they care about. One of the things I particularly like about these kinds of events is having someone else's lens on a topic I know too.This is probably why I found myself noting how many of the answers referred to context. It's a given in the context-driven testing world that the value of a practice depends on its context. However, it can be hard, when you're trying to get a foothold in a new domain, use a new stack, or talk to new teams to know quite what the important aspects of that context are for the task at hand. And it may not be cheap to find out.So perhaps a key point,[…]

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• Test Patterns out of control

   

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• Five for Friday – October 22, 2021

  My day job is busier than normal these days, so this week flew by. A few interesting articles dropped into my view – maybe you’ll find them interesting as well. Self plug time – Unity Gaming Services are now available – a lot of folks on my team were an integral part of making this happen.If you are familiar with NPS (Net Promoter Score), you probably already know that it comes with pros and cons. Here’s a bit of how NPS can grow with NPS 3.0I enjoyed this article on how to learn the Feynman way (tl;dr – learn it well enough that you could explain it to anyone).Oh sorry – another HBR article. If you’re not a member, either join, or use an incognito/private window. This article on 5 Things High Performing Teams do Differently kicks assI like it when companies are transparent with their outages and errors. Too often (like this article), we gloss over the learning opportunity by referring to a operational mistake as a “server glitch” That’s all I have this week – thanks for reading yet again.

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