
Speed Vs Quality: Can you have both?
Agile, continuous improvement, incremental improvements, quality, speed, working smarter
5 minutes reading time
I was recently part of a panel discussion around the topic “What is quality?” and an interesting question came up. Is it always a choice between speed of delivery and the quality of that delivery? The thinking…

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 testingExploratory 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

Building a quality culture: Is it quality assurance or quality awareness?
QA, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, Test automation, testability, TipsA way to see if the work your are doing in your team is about building team awareness or team assurance of quality

How to learn from failure
Agile, feedback, psychological safety, quality, Reading[Organisations] that catch, correct, and learn from failure before others do will succeed - Amy Edmundson

Building Quality in via Testability
Agile, Collaboration, psychological safety, quality, testability, Uncategorised, unit testing7 minute read
Back in March 2018 I visited The Design Museum in London and came across the above installation.
What you can see is technology design classics all the way from the first transistor radios on one side to the very first digital…

What is quality?
Agile, leadership, quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Awareness, TestingPeople 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.