Lesson Learned in (Selling) Software Testing
summary
Enterprise testing remains heavily outsourced and commoditized so teams spend millions on tooling while producing regression pack keeps growing automation that only exists because engineers could automate not because it ties to business risk. A hedge fund example shows an offshore team built a useless framework. Beware vendor claims like “40% more expensive in production” that lack evidence. Practical fixes: learn the business, mine the form 10-K for test ideas, run a critical defect test, keep about 30% outsourced 70% in-house and make managers hands‑on.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:55Context
- 4:46Disclaimers
- 6:30Applying Skepticism
- 8:29Opinion vs Experience
- 9:47The uranium depleted skull syndrome
- 11:41The enterprise is not great
- 16:56A robot with a metric stick
- 20:29The third culture
- 23:29All smarty pants syndrome
- 26:18The Hillary Step
- 28:41Combating Poor Objectives
- 32:48Rethinking Expertise
- 33:47Value Proposition
- 35:10Metrics
- 37:10Smarty Pants Syndrome
- 37:55Humility
- 40:13Manage your expectations
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