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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


Building a successful team – Part 3 – Creating an environment for excellence
You have a team culture and have brought in people with the rights skills and team fit to make it all happen, however that doesn’t mean...
Craig Risi
Jun 4, 20184 min read


Building a successful team – Part 2 – Choosing your successful team
It perhaps should go without saying that recruitment is one of, if not the most important aspect of any company. The type of talent you...
Craig Risi
May 24, 20183 min read


Building a successful team – Part 1 – Identifying purpose and culture
We can talk a lot about winning strategies and architectures that can be implemented for a company to achieve success in the software...
Craig Risi
May 16, 20186 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
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