Martijn Goossens: Be a Better Test Friend to Your Team
summary
Argues that quality improves by breaking silos and building concrete alliances with PO UX dev and Ops, not by lone testing; recommends a user story template with screenshots and acceptance criteria, walking over to collaborate instead of filing tickets — don’t use Jira to communicate — shows devs set up a Protractor automation suite to stop end‑of‑sprint manual testing and Ops provide a dedicated performance test environment, uses Slack with the donut bot for remote pairing, and reports more coverage, dashboards, demos and less stress.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:20From writer to QA friend
- 6:31Journey from manual QA to consultant
- 9:02Lone wolf tester and shared quality
- 13:41Quality as team sport
- 16:56Finding friends in company
- 19:04Friendship with product owners
- 21:30Collaborating with UX
- 24:44Developers as QA allies
- 28:14Operations as partners
- 31:48Shared quality benefits
- 33:53Q&A
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