Quality Awareness Archives - JitGo Jitesh Gosai Tester, Speaker, Presenter

Reducing Uncertainty in Software Delivery

Agile, Automation, Collaboration, DevOps, Quality Awareness, talks

A key theme that I’m seeing from these talks is that they are spending a lot of effort on learning from failure. Either by analysing ones that have happened in production or actively encouraging teams to cause failures.

Testing techniques plotted on a speed, value, environment axis

Exploratory and Automated testing: Using the right techniques in the wrong contexts

Checks Vs Testing, contract testing, feedback, quality, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Exploratory testing is about testing in an unpredictable context and therefore detecting unpredictable failures in our software. Automated testing is about testing in a predictable context and therefore detecting predictable failures. The mistake we make with automation is we try to apply it to the wrong context

Picture of a takeaways at night in Margate

My biggest takeaways from AgileTD 2020: The future of testers isn’t in automation or testing

Agile, Collaboration, Kanban, leaders, leadership, links, psychological safety, Quality Awareness, talks, Test automation, testability, Tips, TOC, videos

I was lucky enough to speak at AgileTD this year and also attend some of the talks. These are my main takeaways from the conference based on the talks that I was able to make. My confirmation bias sense is tingling with this but… The…

August - Toread

Agile, code coverage, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips

31st August 📻 How Can You Stop Comparing Yourself With Other People? If you manage people then this podcast is worth a listen. Having a better understanding of why we compare ourselves to others (social creatures living in hierarchical structures) and…

July - Toread

Agile, links, Quality Awareness, Reading, Testing, Tips

At the intersection of software, technology and people What is this? Things I’ve been reading this week that I’ve found interesting or intriguing. Sharing because I thought you might like them too. Most of the links…

Future of testers: somewhere between users, teams and businesses

Agile, Collaboration, Quality Awareness, testability, Testing

3 minute read I've been thinking a lot recently about what the future of the testers role could look like. Especially in teams that not only fully embrace CI/CD or DevOps but actually get some way towards implementing the ideas behind the…

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What do testers do next?

Agile, QA, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Testing

If the perceived value of testers is just to test the changes made by the development team then the future of the testers role looks bleak but could it be more than this?

Building a quality culture: Is it quality assurance or quality awareness?

QA, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Tips

A way to see if the work your are doing in your team is about building team awareness or team assurance of quality

The unintended consequences of automated UI tests

Android, Automation, Checks Vs Testing, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, Testing, unit testing

Whenever I see people talking about automated testing I always wonder what type of testing they actually mean? Eventually someone will mention the framework they are using and all too often it's a UI based automation tool that allows tests…

What is quality?

Agile, leadership, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Testing

People view quality with a different lens therefore see the same system differently to one another. We as testers should help our teams to see quality through these different lenses by helping them identify these groups and what their measures of quality are.