Episode 40
QA Automation
Michael Fritzius
Michael Fritzius, CTO of Arch DevOps joins me to talk about software testing, automation, and the quirks of tech culture!
Topics and Timestamps
- (0:00:45) Who is Fritz? Arch DevOps
- (0:01:30) Starting the business – The entrepreneurial path
- (0:03:10) Software Quality Assurance
- (0:04:10) Why automate?
- (0:06:20) Is automation replacing the creative component of testing? Are companies missing the point?
- (0:08:10) The dark art of testing
- (0:08:50) A good tester is a communicative tester
- (0:09:35) QA Advocacy – Does it reach the right people? And how can you make it?
- (0:11:07) Going over their heads – Building rapport to stop the fear
- (0:12:15) What should never be automated? Making the right decisions
- (0:13:30) 100% coverage – The warm fuzzy problem
- (0:15:40) Exploratory testing
- (0:18:04) The “I told you so” moment – How to manage it positively
- (0:19:45) The different flavours of fear – We are not the enemy
- (0:22:00) Playful environments – Building rapport through casual competence and comradery
- (0:25:00) Tech culture
- (0:26:00) Silicon Valley – perks, games and nerf guns
- (0:28:25) The weirdness of building rapport in tech
- (0:29:20) The different subcultures in tech
- (0:32:30) Tech creatives
- (0:33:30) Are the developers trying to take over?
- (0:34:50) DevOps – The mindset and the challenges
- (0:38:25) Evaluations – Dev vs QA
- (0:39:05) Developers- Where the bugs come from
- (0:40:00) Logging bugs – Details, details, details
- (0:41:30) Documentation – Do they see the value?
- (0:43:30) The two roles of documentation – The where and the who
- (0:45:35) Cutting down on time with documentation
- (0:46:30) US vs Canada – The differences in technology and culture
- (0:47:30) “At least in Texas they stab you in the front” The three tech cultures
- (0:49:00) Working in a non-tech focused city – Finding the tech in non-tech
- (0:50:48) The Canadian tech culture
- (0:51:10) Action driven culture – moving too quick
- (0:52:25) Directness, dreaming and finding the balance
- (0:53:50) Isn’t tech just tech?
- (0:54:15) Automation – The fear of a new Depression
- (0:55:40) Changes – How we all move forward during automation
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