September 16, 2021
I’m often asked to help people improve the value of their root cause analysis (RCA). Here’s my most common advice. I include a RCA process to improve your software development and advice to make your analysis more effective.
Bill Hodghead
January 10, 2020
New code has unit tests added as the code is created. If you are good, you write them before the code is created (TDD), but even if you don’t use TDD, get them done and merged into the master branch at the same time as the code. If you put it off it won’t happen — or it will be bad.
Bill Hodghead
December 16, 2019
Also called “system” testing.
Bill Hodghead
December 12, 2019
One of the companies produced “integration” tests for every component — which were clearly component tests. “Integration testing” has become such a generic term that companies often use it to mean component or API testing. We distinguish here because the investment size is different. You’ll want…
Bill Hodghead
November 20, 2019
API testing checks the external interface of one or more components, while component testing tests the functionality of a single component.
Bill Hodghead
November 11, 2019
With good unit tests, the code is much easier to modify. Unit tests help the most on the second and subsequent times you change the code, as it’s easy to know if you have broken basic functionality in seconds.
Bill Hodghead
November 5, 2019
I’ve been engaged by five different companies to help them create a quality strategy.
Bill Hodghead
October 29, 2019
In this article series, I’ll show you a test strategy I’ve used with several different companies to achieve high quality and productivity.
Bill Hodghead
May 29, 2019
Oracles solve “This thing needs more tests than I can list!”
Bill Hodghead
May 28, 2019
Equivalence classes are a set of input values that produce the same result.
Bill Hodghead
May 27, 2019
Data driven testing solves the problem: “I want to try a bunch of different test values, but I don’t want to write a different test for each one.”
Bill Hodghead
May 26, 2019
“Regression testing is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”
Bill Hodghead
December 12, 2018
Have you ever thought, “Creating and maintaining all this UI automation is taking a huge amount of my team’s time? I’ll bet we could do less of this and get higher quality!” If so, you wouldn’t be alone. I talked to six product teams that not only thought that, they did it. Here are the lessons a…
Bill Hodghead
September 29, 2017
This article gives insight and analysis regarding container usage for dev pipeline of a software product built using microservices architecture. Innovative businesses are using a microservices approach because it enables the introduction of new applications that are independently deployable witho…
Crosslake
August 9, 2017
Help! My QA team can’t keep up with development!
Bill Hodghead
January 16, 2017
In looking around the web, I don’t see much on how to get SonarQube working in AWS. This blog will cover how to setup SonarQube in AWS for simple code analytics.
Bill Hodghead
April 26, 2012
Lately, I have seen some confusion at the level of testing that should be done when a daily build is generated. How do we know that the daily build is ready for general consumption? What’s the difference between BVT and smoke testing?
Crosslake