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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
Dec 6, 20185 min read


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 21, 20184 min read


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
Sep 7, 20183 min read


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 24, 20184 min read


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 17, 20184 min read


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 10, 20186 min read


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
Aug 3, 20185 min read


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 18, 20184 min read


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
Jul 5, 20183 min read


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
Jun 7, 20184 min read


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 24, 20183 min read


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
Apr 9, 20183 min read


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 22, 20184 min read


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
Mar 7, 20184 min read


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 20, 20183 min read


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...
Craig Risi
Feb 7, 20183 min read


Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 1
I have written before about how it’s important that we don’t rely on metrics exclusively to make decisions, but rather use the data in...
Craig Risi
Jan 30, 20183 min read


Why Test Automation Fails
While almost all software companies see the need for automation and promote it in their strategies, few are actually getting it right in...
Craig Risi
Jan 3, 20184 min read


Preparing for the Load
During this last week, we saw many South African sites and retailers struggle to deal with the increased load experienced on Black...
Craig Risi
Nov 30, 20175 min read


Writing Effective Unit Tests
I know when it comes to my articles I can focus much of test automation effort on building end-to-end and solution-oriented test...
Craig Risi
Nov 23, 20174 min read
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