There's No Such Thing as a DevOps Tester

 There are no testers on DevOps teams.

But then how can we achieve the quality our customers expect?

How Not To Build Armoured Planes

✈ Do you like planes? Armoured planes, specifically? Because in that case I’ve got a story for you.

Feedback is there to be dealt with

Here’s a story about feedback, and how not to deal with it.

I started my career testing helicopter avionics.

I just want good code to go live

Yesterday I observed a debate about how to structure code pull requests:

• is it reasonable to keep functional and “cosmetic”/refactoring code changes in the same pull request, in order to simplify the work for the programmer?
• or is it reasonable to expect the programmer to split their changes up into two (or several) PRs, one for functional changes, and one for refactorings/cleanup?

One smart person summed it up perfectly:

Bugs are no problem

🐞 Bugs are no problem.

At least known bugs. At least not really.

I mean, sure, we all would rather have a bug-free product, but if I had to choose between a product with 1000 known bugs and 100 unknown bugs, I know which one I’d choose.

Not shipping is the worst quality failure

We all strive to create excellent quality products.

So, what would be the worst possible quality product?