On Mastering Codecraft

Training is important, and shouldn't be relegated to the back burner in any organization.

Great projects are built by great programmers. The quality of your development team is your biggest indicator of success. We need to make programmers awesome. Not just processes or technologies, though they are excellent supporters and facilitators. An apprenticeship model is a proven and effective way to do that. Electricians have 4 years of guided practice before they can apply for licensure to practice unsupervised. Professional engineers have 4-6 years in the state of Col

Expensive employees burn long hours building out automation infrastructure. Here is the third sign that investment will not be valued. In the last part of this series, we looked at the needs of the business stakeholders of test automation. This time, we will look at the technical stakeholders. We are talking about the people who are looking at the automation daily: the test team, the application developers, the scrum masters and the dev managers. As we said before, trust is t

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Why do so many automation projects get discarded in the face of challenges? Trust is the only currency that spends in Test Automation. The survival of any software project, in the end, relies on stakeholders seeing and knowing the value that they are getting from their investment. Today, we’ll focus on the business stakeholders, and leave the technical ones for a different post. Product owners, executives, sales and marketing, and support and deployment teams all have one ba

Without automated test. even the most carefully planned DevOps pipeline becomes unsafe