A step-by-step approach Introduction In a previous post, I described how you could build Engineering Dashboards using Jupyter Notebooks and Gitlab Pages (see [1]). That was useful if you knew what graphs or hypotheses you would like to plot/test. …

A test professional’s take on “if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” What made me write this One of the things I do at work is attend a weekly engineering post-mortem for high severity production issues that have occurred to lend my experience in looking at whether there were…

A step-by-step approach Introduction As engineering managers, we are always looking for ways to measure team productivity, identify obstacles team members are facing, coaching our teams on sound software engineering principles, developing engineering craftsmanship and keeping an eye on software quality. The larger the team, the bigger the challenge. In the…

Authors note: by Engineering here I mean Software Engineering as I am not qualified to speak on other schools of engineering. Introduction In a previous article [1] I explained why just catching bugs is not going to lead you to a high quality product. I also explained that what level of…

A step-by-step approach — Introduction In a previous article, I detailed how Amazon’s BlazingText could be used to build a Jira bug classification engine. In there, I also referenced the corresponding Gitlab repository. In the README.md there, I very briefly mentioned about word2vec, word embeddings and the vectors.txt …

My first encounter with the power of Observability Way back in 2015 I was involved in the first ever internet live streaming of an NFL game (see [1]). I was in charge of quality for the front end portions ie. the iOS, Android and Web experiences. We were testing almost everyday and on weekends using real live events…

Introduction If you ask any software quality professional what they do, most will tell you (I should know, I’ve been working as a QA/QE/Test manager for the last 12 years) their job function is mostly centered around testing. It comes in various forms: manual testing, automated testing, exploratory testing, functional testing…

Author’s note: in this article I assume that the reader has a decent understanding of what a modern code review is like and what unit tests are. Background Test and Quality professionals often believe that to achieve quality, you need lots and lots of end-to-end tests to validate all the user…

A step-by-step approach Background Google Forms is a really useful tool for creating and conducting online surveys. It’s also free and pretty easy to use. However, there are times when you need to perform additional processing to the responses eg. filter out certain responses or aggregate them. After that, you need…