Craig Risi
What is Good Enough?
Good enough. That catch-phrase that has been around since teams started taking their code into production and wondering if it’s good...
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A personal blog addressing software quality across all aspects of software development, testing, design, and people.
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Craig Risi
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Guidelines to writing effective unit tests
It's one thing knowing why you should focus on your unit testing strategy and what ot unit tests, but none of that is helpful if you...
Craig Risi
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
What should be unit tested?
Testers typically like to test everything when the code arrives in their environments. However, when there is confidence that the code is...
Craig Risi
- Jan 11, 2019
- 4 min
Why Testers Should Focus on Unit Tests
Testing has changed from a discipline that was largely manual and isolated from the rest of the development, to one that is highly...
Craig Risi
- Dec 6, 2018
- 5 min
Spare Change? Dealing with change management
In the ideal world, it would be easy to see where our lives were headed so that we could plan accordingly and ensure that we are...
Craig Risi
- Sep 21, 2018
- 4 min
The Cost of Poor Quality Software
It was reported in 2015, that in the US alone that more than 15 bugs per 1000 lines of code was introduced to customers. And if that...
Craig Risi
- Sep 7, 2018
- 3 min
Why I hate the word "Testing"
This is going to sound pretty unusual for someone who has for a large part of his software development career had the world "Test" in his...
Craig Risi
- Aug 24, 2018
- 4 min
Transitioning non-technical teams to be technical – Part 4 - Measuring success and continued change
Now any transition would not be possible, if it were not able to measure how you are performing in that transition. You can put systems...
Craig Risi
- Aug 17, 2018
- 4 min
Transitioning non-technical teams to be technical – Part 3 - The mentoring process
Once you’ve set the vision, created an environment for tolerance and learning and tackle your recruitment to now cater for the technical...
Craig Risi
- Aug 10, 2018
- 6 min
Transitioning to technical testing – Part 2 – Recruiting Right
The best way to help transition your workforce to be more technical is to ensure you bring in technical people from the get go. Which...
Craig Risi
- Aug 3, 2018
- 5 min
Transitioning to technical testing – Part 1 – Setting Expectations
What is Technical Testing? We have heard the phrase automation tester, test engineer or even the more generic backend or frontend tester....
Craig Risi
- Jul 18, 2018
- 4 min
Managing your critical path
Testing everything and having absolute confidence is something testers know all too well is not going to happen. While we like to do our...
Craig Risi
- Jul 5, 2018
- 3 min
Less is more when it comes to CI quality
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted an article because I spent the past few weeks focusing on launching another new initiative. That...
Craig Risi
- Jun 7, 2018
- 4 min
Moving from monolith to microservices
Many large companies have little appetite for risk and innovation and as a result are hamstrung by their old, monolithic systems which...
Craig Risi
- Apr 24, 2018
- 3 min
Making the pieces of your microservices testing puzzle fit
Creating a microservices ecosystem is definitely the way of the future and allows for faster development and expansion of complex and...
Craig Risi
- Apr 9, 2018
- 3 min
Is there a need for commercial testing tools?
Many years ago, if any company wanted to automate their set of test cases, the only real options were expensive tools which few companies...
Craig Risi
- Mar 22, 2018
- 4 min
A little governance is a good thing
When it comes to strategies for working with many different agile development teams, there are often two chains of thought – full...
Craig Risi
- Mar 7, 2018
- 4 min
Why Building Software is like running a marathon
For those that know me personally, they will know that along with software development and writing, one of my other big passions is...
Craig Risi
- Feb 20, 2018
- 3 min
Dealing with your debt problem
We can spend an incredible amount of time on the topic of financial debt and how to manage it correctly or even better yet, avoid it...
Craig Risi
- Feb 7, 2018
- 3 min
Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 2
For part two of my Agile metrics section (you can read part 1 here), I want to focus on metrics that are testing specific. These are a...
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