Holistic testing is a term that I have been thinking about for a while now. There are many different types of testing that need to included in our support for better quality. In January 2021, I wrote a blog post called “Testing And Coding, Not Coding ‘Then’ Testing” to emphasize that testing and coding are […]
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Part 4: Testing vs Quality Management – Quality Management
QUALITY MANAGEMENT This post is the final post in my series about what I see as the differences between testing (Part 1 – What is Testing and Part 2 – Testing Activities) vs quality management (Part 3 – What is Quality and 4 – Quality Managment). Who Owns Quality The whole team needs to take […]
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Part 3: Testing vs Quality Management – What is Quality
What is Quality In my most recent blog posts ‘What is Testing’ and ‘Testing Activities’, I shared my thoughts on testing. There is a close relationship between testing and quality, but they are not the same. Testing in some ways, assesses quality, but only to a certain degree. My intention was to make this the […]
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Part 1: Testing vs Quality Management – What is Testing?
What’s the difference between testing and quality management? Over the past few years, I’ve been thinking about quality and what it means. I’ve done a few talks on it and engaged in several conversations with different people. Recently a LinkedIn conversation sparked my thoughts in a different direction – about the relationship between testing and […]
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It’s NOT My Job – Take 2!
I wrote a blog post back in 2016 with the same title. A different event inspired me to write about the same idea and I think it bears repeating. Last week, I was at a client site in California – the state that prides itself on being eco-friendly. By the door (on the way out […]
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