Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Pia Wiedermayer, Lead QA at Zühlke, is talking with Gerhard today about software quality. If the name sounds familiar, check out episode 28. Thank you Romano for the introduction 👋🏻

Do you remember the last time that you used an app, whether it was in the browser or on your mobile, and everything just worked? What about that intuitive feel, snappiness and you achieving the task that you intended to without feeling that you are fighting tech? Experiences like those take a lot of effort across multiple disciplines. They are designed, built and maintained over long periods of time. It all starts with people like Pia that really care about quality. It’s so much more than just automated testing...

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Featuring:

• Pia Wiedermayer – LinkedIn, Website
• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• 🎬 Hey DevOps, you’re killing my job!
• Waterfall Testing to Agile QA - Successfully Transforming a Bank’s Setup - EuroStar 2022, 7-10 June
• Alice in Agile Land – a tester’s story
• How to get rid of the new QA
• Boundary Value Analysis & Equivalence Partitioning Testing
• 🎬 Pia Wiedermayer, Quality Passionista, YouTube channel

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.

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Featuring:

• Adam Jacob – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• System Initiative

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!