Michael Hackett
Letter from the Editor – December 2020Digital Transformation and IT Modernization projects have shifted into high gear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tough on some teams is having to do mor
Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? Part 2 of 2Introduction This article is part 2 of the 2-part series, Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? Part 1 explored modern SDLCs, such as A
Developer Testing? What is Testing and QA’s Place? : Part 1 of 2As organizations’ Agile methodologies become mature, one of the trends in software development is for Developers to take on more testing, and ar
Letter From The Editor – September 2020There is a growing software development dynamic of teams without Testers. When I first went into Software Quality, I learned one thing right away: My
Continuous Testing, Part 2: Strategy and Automation Goals for Test TeamsDevOps has been described as Agile on Steroids; DevOps has also been described as Agile for Operations/IT. I like both of those descriptions. Many org
Letter From The Editor – June 2020Continuous Testing… what is it? When we first decided to do a magazine issue dedicated to the DevOps practice of Continuous Testing, I joked wit
Leader’s Pulse: What Is The Value Of A Manager’s Role In Modern Tech Organizations?Do managers even matter? That’s a good question. This is the question some MBA students asked for a research project at Google. They called th
Letter From The Editor – March 2020Methods and strategy have been my favorite topics since I started working in testing. It’s essentially engineering problem-solving. It’s both look
Smoke Testing: An Exhaustive Guide For A Non-Exhaustive SuiteHas this ever happened to you: You’ve been testing for a while, perhaps building off of a branch, only to find out that, after all of this time, the
