Life After TestingJAMES A. WHITTAKER

@DOCJAMESW

It began with software

Planetary exploration, exoplanet identification

Diseases, cures and understanding

Climate improvement, clean energy

The only tool more important than human ingenuity to the future of mankind is software

But quality took over

It started with a girl

But is was still development, user-less development!

And who can deny the power of destruction?

QA is seductive but it is an activity, not a role

Google giveth and Google taketh away

Testing done right

Tools first, features second

Testing was important, until it wasn’t

The world has not stood still

The Web A single ecosystem for all competitors

Competitors’ products a few clicks away

Tight feedback loop

Fix deployment as quick as a browser refresh

The Cloud Continuous build, flight, deploy

No integration, no big bang system testing

Every engineer, dogfooder on the same version

Test in production

Engineering

No roles Not development, not testing, not program management

It’s engineering

The only role is product development, everything to get us there is an activity

Everything is a feature and is managed like one Testing infrastructure? Feature!

Manage test code like shipping code

No better place for newbies than test!

The bottom line

Development and testing are symbiotic

A team full of people who can do both is the future