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Progress vs Perfection
Mentoring is a tough task. Not only is it time consuming and often require you to step outside of your regular work to assist and develop...
Craig Risi
Oct 24, 20184 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
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