• Five Quality Coaching Tips (when coaching 10+ teams)

  What happens if the quality team is a team of one - you? How do you ensure all teams reach a certain level of quality with the services they are building without splitting yourself into ten different pieces? How do you make sure engineers know what good looks like?

  2.12.2022 | 9:58 קרא עוד...

• Some housekeeping

  Today has been the last day of work for me in 2022. I will be on vacation for the next couple of weeks. That said, I will cut back my publishing pace a bit. I intend to post a weekly review of Jerry’s books for a while, but can’t promise to write much more in between. That might change in 2023 – or I might be back on a regular hiatus. As with all my writings, I try to keep my writing as an exercise for me, to get my thoughts straight, train the muscle to take something away from a day of work that I want to write about every day at work, and reflect on the things I perceive during the work day. I just took you along for the ride for the past few months. I hope you will occasionally check back for new content, and maybe during brighter days, there will be an opportunity to meet in person in the future. Thanks for reading along all my thought-sorting here. I hope I can keep my writing going, but doubt I want to continue this particular kind of pace from the past months. Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a Happy New Year.

  2.12.2022 | 9:45 קרא עוד...

• Non Functional Testing Silos

  Oftentimes, we see that an application’s development and testing are divided into Functional and Non-Functional areas. In this blog, let us look at the latest software development and testing processes, dangers of dividing testing efforts into functional and non functional testing, and the alternative approaches to such division. When devising a testing strategy, the approach that is generally taken is to decompose the testing into various types. Traditionally, it has been beneficial to split testing into functional, performance, security, integration, interoperability, system, solution, and other types of testing based on the needs of the system-under-test. This was only done for the operational convenience of focusing on a specific aspect of testing so that as a whole, the product would be of a good quality. Unfortunately, such division has let to unintended negative consequences. The functional aspects of the application is usually separated from the other aspects and the other aspects are clubbed as “non-functional“. While this may not look serious, the team formation and the cultural impact of such an organisation seriously impact the quality of the software. Engineers involved with the ‘functional’ aspects of the application do not think about, plan, and design taking into consideration aspects like performance and security. This leads to silos of software development and testing, and broke the software because the ‘non-functional’ aspects are not considered upfront and leads to multiple unnecessary iterations of software development and testing. There are ways to address this. With talks about Built-In Quality and Ensemble Programming, every aspect[…]

  2.12.2022 | 6:23 קרא עוד...

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