I have always loved that subtitle on Dr. Strangelove – “ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”  I have recently been thinking that better, faster, cheaper with continuous delivery and continuous testing means we really have to stop worrying about every defect. Which led me to Dr. Strangelove .  It’s equally mind bending in some ways … so many years of looking under every rock for those defects. The worst possible thing was an “escape” to production and its requisite... [More]

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I’m putting the finishing touches on my presentation for Innovate 2013 called " What’s the Real Deal with Testing? "  My session will be Wednesday, June 5 th at 11:15 am. We’re going to have 90 minutes to talk about the real problems facing testers. Like what is this “continuous testing” thing? How much time do you spend setting up test environments and what’s the hardest part? Are you doing unattended testing? Do you want to?   Join me for these topics and much, much more! If you... [More]

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  First off and as I am Canadian eh, I have to apologize for my tardiness between posts. Don't really know why I am apologizing - it is just something we Canadians seem to do. However, I know many are probably wondering what is going on at Innovate so here is a little insight  aboot  day 2 in the Quality Management and Testing track. First off, let's talk a little about Service Virtualization. For those who don't know what this means,  "Service Virtualization is the ability to simulate the behavior of select... [More]

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A colleague shared this article   with me and much of the thinking aligns with where I’ve been landing on the topic of continuous testing.  Of course, when reading the article, one thing jumps right out …. When the author, Marnie Hutcheson,  expressed concerns about being able to complete the testing in the time frame specified (30 hours of testing, twice, over a weekend), she was, um, fired. Felt to me as abrupt as hearing “you’re fired” on a certain television show.  And the most amazing... [More]

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I’m still thinking about what the right content should be for continuous testing. My previous blog was about thinking about what test content matters. But there’s also the consideration of how much content and considering avoiding waste of building too much automation.   I’ve had the experience several times of too much success (amazing, right?) in building automation.  In those days, it was actually great to have a robust test automation suite that took 12-18 hours to run. We actually measured our success at... [More]

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The Agile Manifesto guiding principles says, “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”  (emphasis mine) So as teams have adopted agile development practices, we have rapidly hit the delivery wall. The current conventional wisdom says to reduce risk, deliver more frequently and to make sure you’re not changing very much. I mean really, how much can you screw up in a day (or even a week)? So, if you can’t really screw much up AND even if you do, you... [More]

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Earlier this year, IBM hosted a webinar where we asked you, the customer, for feedback on Innovate. Well, the Quality Management and Testing Innovate team heard you loud and clear. For one, you said you wanted more sessions delivered by our customers and to hear the benefits they are realizing first hand. This year, we are offering more customer sessions than in years past. In fact two thirds of this year's agenda is being delivered by customers and our business partners. But we didn't stop there and believe we took this year's line... [More]

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As our need to deliver software faster and meet market demands has increased, something usually has to be cut.    The old adage says that you can only deliver against 2 of the 3 mandates (cost, time frame, quality), so choose which one won’t happen. However, that is no longer an acceptable answer.   As an increasing number of organizations are going “agile”, quality concerns are being raised yet again.   But being “agile” does not have to mean sacrificing quality.   As a matter of fact, with agility can come  increased quality as more... [More]

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