Steve Halzel @SteveHalzel

When 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞... ... the organization gets overwhelmed & everything grinds to a halt. ⚙️🛑 👉 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫? During one of my virtual coffee chats with a VPoE of a big data SaaS platform compa…lnkd.in/eA9DZDmU

We recognize the problem and we have our metrics in place… We know 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡…🧙🧙‍♀️ And now… watch me make your 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕣! 🧙‍♂️🪄🥣   Ok, I wish I could m…lnkd.in/eXE-zfgv

Spot on, Tim Abell 🤓 ! One of the 1st signs of TD is developer frustration. There’s still time to pay down your debt!! lnkd.in/eC4q5EbE

All this talk about 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭… Ever Wonder How To Recognize  Witch is Witch…🧙🧙‍♀️ 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 is taking shortcuts or implementing suboptimal methods during development to mee…lnkd.in/e9WnSvEk

A picture is worth 1000 words... 🎤 lnkd.in/gzG_c795

𝕿𝖍𝖊 "𝕮𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖆𝖒𝖇𝖎𝖓𝖔" 𝖍𝖆𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖐𝖊𝖓!!! I know this is not news, especially to Boston Red Sox fans Why am I bringing this up? 🙋‍♂️   Sports teams and businesses don't wake up one day, and say it's time for a cultura…lnkd.in/dukWgZEe

My 7-Step System for reducing defect turnaround time 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒔…𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔. 👇 This is the exact system I implemented with a client recently. 1️⃣ The Manager looks at a developer's Defect Backlog Queue. 2️⃣ The Manager chooses 2 defects &…lnkd.in/ees7mnwp

Providing support for ALL your releases without violating your SLAs? That’s going to be a struggle! You’re planning the release of version 4.2 of your product. Along the way, your customers have bought versions 1.0 - 4.1. Ideally you’d like them to up…lnkd.in/eYw5sVqx

Don’t start another test process Without these 2 documents… 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 Not sure what the difference is? A test strategy is a high-level document that provides an overview of the overall testing…lnkd.in/giXkEEz6

Don't touch it… Are you afraid to touch your code, infrastructure, or development process?   If the wind blows in the wrong direction, will you be forced to drop everything else and "SWAT team" it back together?   It is a valid fear 😱   You may be fac…lnkd.in/dFmp6msn

Test Technical Debt isn’t just an annoying problem. It’s a ball and chain dragging you down. And Test Technical Debt (TTD) happens for several reasons, such as… Not enough functional and non-functional testing before release Manually testing instead…lnkd.in/e6tYEiaD

Still not convinced you need Test Automation? Let me ask you this? 👇 Are your testers happy to work weekends, late nights and take no holidays? Are they able to test the code long enough to find its limits? Can they test it over and over again until it…lnkd.in/gZ42Szx2

Everyone focuses on the TOOLS for Test Automation Sure, they’re important.  But they’re useless if you don’t ALSO have THIS in place 👇 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 There must be a commitment to do test automation as much as possible. This include…lnkd.in/edEZs52d

The best way to ensure your product delights your customers? Stop doing “busywork” testing 🛑 And start thinking more holistically by including your customer’s experience in your approach to testing and quality engineering.  This means that as well as…lnkd.in/gmWPx2VT

You have bred a beautiful stallion 🐴 Now you sell it to someone who’ll use it for a polar expedition 🥶 This might get tricky, right? And that’s exactly what happens with your product. 💡 You had all the use cases and scenarios in mind when you wrot…lnkd.in/edTEEibs

Great article from Adam Waytz in the Harvard Business Review! Last week, I posted my concerns about this phenomenon in Testing Software, but it is far more prevalent than I thought. #business #testing #software lnkd.in/d5GAfNWx

Is your PRIDE the actual barrier to happier customers and cost savings? Companies give me a number of objections to implementing 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. The first 2, you can probably guess “It costs too much” “Automation can’t easily adjust to…lnkd.in/dRKxs4ZW

Test Coverage - misinterpreted. ‘Test Coverage’ is wrong And it’s losing you money... 💰💰💰 Test coverage is generally understood like this: ✔️People look at how many test cases they’ve executed. ✔️They look at product quality & readiness in terms of…lnkd.in/eavbp2hi

This week, I spoke a lot about Test Technical Debt, including DevOps debt. Now I'd like to know which is worse for you, skipping or overdoing work? Please take the survey below. #technicaldebt #effectiveness #efficiency #testing #devops lnkd.in/eE99xKWq

Cost isn’t the biggest barrier to Test Automation. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 👇 is I hear 3 objections to Test Automation: 👉 Set up costs  👉 The frequency of product changes  👉 Lack of Expertise These are my responses to the first two arguments: 𝐒𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐬…lnkd.in/d3g8uSbH