Dev Ops Article in May Test Magazine

9 minute read - Dev Ops Agile Published Articles

On the 21st of March I hosted a “Dev Ops and QA” session at the Test Focus Groups in London. This turned into a small 2 page article for Test Magazine in the May 2017 issue. The write up is based on the discussions over the day. I try to summarise what DevOps meant to the people in the meetings, their concerns and some of the experiences we discussed. Some of the features people associate with DevOps being:

Evil Tester and The Agile Team

3 minute read - Agile

Agile gets everywhere and it is not easy. It takes time. It takes practice. What will a tester do? Everyone on the team has to adapt to the particular dynamic on the team - and that includes testers - so answering questions like “What should a tester do on an Agile project” becomes really hard. I can think of some things that a tester will probably have to do, and I can think of some things they will probably find consistently hard, but I can’t give an absolute answer to that question.