Philippa Jennings

Quality first champion! Testing != Quality but one can definitely lead to the other if placed in the right hands at the right time in the right place ❤

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

Do we think this is really the salary on offer here ... it seems worryingly low for a lead qa! Why do companies think it's okay to pay such low salaries for quality and testing experts? Let alone for someone you want to manage others and responsible for quality processes etc 🤔🫣

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@FriendlyTester We decided today was the day for a glass or several and found ourselves at our local needing to top up with more 😂

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@FriendlyTester

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@TesterFromLeic Aha I did wonder how you had written so much ... I figured you were just special 🤪😉😀

[Jules Ivanic @guizmaii]

My dear Developers, My dear Software Engineers,

It's part of your job to explain to the business/product/company that making the new feature takes time.

It's part of your job to explain that you must apply some code quality and software engineering best practices (writing tests, etc.)

If you don't, if you accept the pressure you can receive from them to deliver as quickly as possible and deliver a piece of software that is impossible to maintain because you bypassed all the best practices (no tests, etc.),

THAT IS YOUR FAULT!

It's not the fault of the business/product/company.

And once the unmaintainable software costs so much to barely be maintainable and barely evolveable, once everyone is too scared to touch it, once the complexity is so big that each time you make a change you introduce a bug in prod, they will blame YOU!
And they will be right!

That's part of their job to defend their constraints, which can be time, budget, etc.
And that's part of your job to defend your engineering constraints!
You need to find a common ground between all the company constraints, engineering constraints being part of it.

We can't only accept theirs and ditch ours.

By maintaining some software quality, you'll maintain a healthy software, a healthy delivery pace over a long period of time (years), and a healthy quality of life in your job.

Thank you
❤️

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@FriendlyTester That sounds about right ... the greed of Apple stealing from Android 😂

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

How many development environments do most people have ... 3 e.g. dev, qa and preprod OR 2 e.g. dev and qa OR any other numbers and combinations?

What benefits or problems do you see with the combinations?

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

What does one do if you've just started a job, then go on a permitted holiday, just to return and be really poorly?

Sat in A&E for last 8 hours already, and not expecting to go home for another 2+ hours ... but terrified to call in sick as I'm so new.

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

Today my squad lead said that she had let the team know before I started that it would still be everyone's responsibility to test as my role was more than just testing as it also encompasses quality + more!!

Music to my ears ... I feel blessed to have such an wise squad lead!

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@ministryoftest But ... it works on my machine 😂

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

Does anyone in the testing community network work in/with a conversational design team for a AI Web messaging product? I'm looking for connections to talk about testing strategy ideas etc 😁

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@_lee_jensen Yes I agree - and so why are you putting a QA column into the workflow as if it comes at a certain stage of the lifecycle? Really what we're both saying is that there should be a massive QA umbrella that sits over the whole workflow from so we can bring our skills throughout.

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

Has anyone successfully managed to convince their team to get rid of that QA column on the board or not to put a QA column on the board at all? If so .. 1/2
#notthegatekeeper #continuoustesting #continuousquality

#qualityadvocacy #qualitycoaching

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@_gordongeorge Good question ... for me it's about ensuring quality and testing happens continuously and throughout and the QA is not seen as the gatekeeper or a bottleneck. Its about preventing bugs not hunting for them. It's about quality advocacy and coaching ... and pairing!

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@_lee_jensen I'm intrigued by your response ... why would you argue for it to be added?

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

how do you capture your work now ... do you carry out your work alongside the devs whilst the ticket is "in progress" and assigned to the dev or do you have a process that requires the dev to include you in the peer review or something else?

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

Day 1 complete .... I finally received my laptop mid morning and then spent alot of the day trying to log on and get past all the authentication gubbins by mid afternoon. Made a start on the mandatory training 😀 .. now ready for Day 2 tomorrow 🥳

[Philippa Jennings @QualityPip]

@testingpeers Please would someone be kind enough to send me the QR code for the conference feedback form .... my phone had died by the end and I couldn't get a scan 🥴