Does Testing Keep you from making a huge mistake?

Show Notes

Things get off to a great start during the retro, where Trevor complains about destroying his USB 3.0 drivers due to a Win 8.1 upgrade and Matt turns into a Cylon.

Test Kitchen is now officially 1.0, but does’t really support Windows, but that doesn’t stop Matt from wanting to hack it to make it work anyway.

“Testing is any action taken to give you information about the actual state of your software, vs your assumptions” – Lanette

“A lot of developers look at testing like insurance – it’s not going to prevent a disaster, but it’s going to help you mitigate those problems” – John

Spirited discussion about the value of code coverage as a metric, and our panelists mostly violenly agree that it is not a valuable number in a vacuum. We also discuss that it is possible to approach all of life like a QA tester.

Check-Outs

Lanette

Nate

John

Matt

Pester – BDD framework for PowerShell
XCOM – Enemy Within

Trevor

Lanette Creamer

Software tester, writer, presenter.

Nate Brengle

Currently a Game Designer working in partnership with Stanford to create medical games as well as a QA and Business Analyst for Pathfinder Software. His romance with Quality extends far beyond software and games, with ties to the literary and plastic arts, philosophized psychoanalysis, and functional religion.

John Sheehan

John is co-founder and CEO of Runscope with over 15 years of experience working in a wide variety of IT and software development roles. As an early employee at Twilio, John led the developer evangelism program and worked as a Product Manager for Developer Experience. After Twilio, John was Platform Lead at IFTTT working with API providers to create new channels. John is also the co-host of Traffic and Weather, an API and cloud podcast.

Matt Stratton (he/him)

Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.

Trevor Hess

Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.

Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.

Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.

Does Testing Keep You From Making a Huge Mistake?