Alan Barr articles - 42 total
AI / LLM Testing Podcast
How are we using AI? AI Products and Testing AI Testing What do you think? AI / LLM Testing...
Solo, pair program, or mob ?
Do you program, as a duo, a mob or by yourself? When I worked at marketing companies, I usually...
Is Domain-Driven Design relevant?
I found a FREE guide on Domain-Driven Design that I found helpful. How is it relevant anymore? It...
Down for me?
I was trying to post and dev.to was down for me. When you make a change, how do you know when an...
Should you ALWAYS write unit tests?
I was reading an article about unit tests. Honestly, it seems like a lot of effort. Do you receive a...
Surprising Apps in Testing
Do you have any applications that you test? I was wondering how to explain a common app. I decided to...
How should I start?
If you were going to look at an application with fresh eyes, how would you test? There is always a...
Security and Observability Platforms
Where do you see the future of software development platforms going with security and observability?...
How do you deal with incidents?
It's near the end of the workday and something is blowing up. People are raging in slack. How do you...
When should you build an internal developer platform on Kubernetes?
What do you all think? I built mine, its been a great six+ months, and I'm a little regretful I could...
Who even needs Kubernetes?
Is Kubernetes even necessary at all?
Export ServiceNow Report CSV to Airtable
ServiceNow report data to Airtable I manage a platform product roadmap...
Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy Stats
Course released on Udemy Statistics Recently I decided to release my course on udemy. Here...
Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy
Course released on Udemy Recently I decided to release my course on udemy. I want people...
Selling Bugs for Software Testers Course
An Experiment I would like to see if there is demand for me to provide a course on...
The Evolution of Software Testing
Team Effort Everyone working on a software team is responsible for t...
QA stands for Questioning Assumptions
How are you questioning the assumptions about your products and software?
Using teaching techniques to create a better workshop
Using teaching techniques to make a better workshop
My First Online Testing Conference
Today I am attending the OnlineTestConf a free testing conference between 11/27 to 11/28 2018. So far...
How many programming languages should you support for a business?
Should you support one language or multiple
You are not asking these Four Powerful Questions for higher quality software
The next time you work on a project ask these questions first.
What do you try when you want to find bugs before your customers do?
Bugs exist some are worth fixing some we do not want others to see. How do you find yours?
Should you have a staging server for testing?
Is it worth having a staging server for testing?
How do you view bugs?
What is a bug to you? A problem or an opportunity?
How much miscommunication comes from assumptions?
Miscommunication stemming from assumptions
Scraping HTML with PHP Node and Puppeteer
Scraping in 2018 Interestingly enough I receive decent amount of hit...
Utilizing a Rubric to share expectations of the QA Engineer Role
Using a rubric to share out the details of how testing is done
Azure Data Lake Custom Extractor
Recently I had someone ask me if I could help them with querying data out of Az...
The single most powerful action to make better choices and software
Be curious ask open-ended questions Understanding others viewpoints ...
Picking a cloud database?
Choosing an affordable cloud database for a new project.