Data Driven Quality
Several of the older posts come from when I was writing on testing, SOA, and Testing in Production (TiP). I am currently writing on Data Driven Quality (DDQ).
Penultimate Day of School 2011
If it’s June it must be time for my annual “I love the Penultimate Day of School”...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 06/14/2011
Telemetry Myopia: The Toyota “Fail Safe” system Debacle and Google cavalier attitude toward Privacy
For the past few weeks members of my team and I have been meeting with key individuals in Bing,...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 03/07/2010
Confidence is High and Feeling Feisty
This is a bit of personal musing. Feel free to skip. Originally I was going to tweet this but then I...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 01/13/2010
Bing Outage exposes Testing in Production (TiP) Hazards
I have been a big proponent of shipping services into production more frequently and conducting more...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 12/04/2009
TIP-ING SERVICES TESTING BLOG #1: THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
For some time now I’ve been promising to lay out all my thinking on Testing in Production (TiP). I...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 11/24/2009
MINNEAPOLIS AND BACK TO TALK CLOUD TESTING
Who in their right mind agrees to fly all morning from Seattle to Minneapolis, drive to a local...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 11/12/2009
HWTSaM vPodcast – Chapter 3 Engineering Life Cycles
All three authors of "How We Test Software at Microsoft", Bj Rollison, Alan Page, and Ken...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 07/30/2009
AN UNEXPECTED PLUG FOR “HOW WE TEST SOFTWARE AT MICROSOFT”
This BLOG post is a thank you to all the individuals who have read “How We Test Software at...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 06/19/2009
NOTHING TO DO WITH S+S – I LOVE THE WORD PENULTIMATE
Alert: this post has nothing to do with S+S or operations or testing but it’s a small slice of life...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 06/10/2009
When I Train I Always Learn Something New
Today I hosted four hours of interactive learning on S+S testing with table topics such as "Testing...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 06/08/2009
Ship your service into production and then start testing!
Think about Services shifting the Testing into Production The topic of Testing in Production (TiP)...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 06/03/2009
1+1 Redundancy Just Isn't Good Enough
1+1 redundancy for production services is a flawed design approach. +1 redundancy is like the kind...
Author: R.K.Johnston Date: 04/22/2009