Against a Harmful Divide: Testing as the Lifeblood of Development
Talkat CAST 2016 · on Wednesday, 2016-08-10· at 14:30· Fletcher Challenge Theatre (1900), Simon Fraser University Vancouver 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3·
summary
Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry work argues that testing must live inside development, not sit in a separate QA silo; distributed deployments take 20–30 VMs with deploys from half an hour to many hours, so long feedback cycles force engineers to learn ~30 cross-cutting skills (RSpec, Capybara, Concourse CI, Go, dependency management, Vim). An experiment with dedicated exploratory testing shows real benefits of paired exploration but fails to scale due to hiring, allocation and managerial buy‑in, so testing gets folded into developer roles.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17The pitch for this talk
- 0:47The inspiration for this talk
- 2:23Cloud Foundry
- 5:06My Experience
- 6:46Feedback
- 8:31Conways Law
- 11:31Cloud Foundry Teams
- 16:45The Safety 2 Movement
- 18:50Complex Systems
- 19:28Dual Roles
- 23:12FailureFree Operations
- 24:46The Pivotal Model
- 31:40Conclusion
- 35:07Testing Conferences
- 36:16Testers as Developers
- 41:17Eternal Amateurs
- 44:34Quality Advocacy
- 57:05Tshaped People
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