Is your Quality on the Road to Nowhere?
summary
Argues that testing alone no longer defines quality and introduces quality engineering practices that make quality visible from day one, coining quality'bility as the ease of seeing quality at any time. Describes using SonarQube, API exploratory checks, OKRs and small experiments, and a short swarm experiment that found performance hotspots and led engineers to redesign a microservice and add pipeline performance checks. Recommends team-owned metrics, focused experiments, and measuring recoverability rather than chasing perfection.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:55Defining testing and quality
- 6:05Headlights analogy for modern systems
- 9:16Quality as value
- 13:35Contemporary quality engineering
- 20:49Quality as everyone's job
- 25:26Quality beyond the product
- 31:07New quality attributes and speed
- 34:00Recovery over perfection
- 35:49Introducing quality'bility
- 37:35Skills beyond functional testing
- 40:54Rethinking quality metrics
- 43:47Measuring what matters
- 47:42Conclusion
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