Babble & Dabble: Creating Bonds Across Disciplines
Talkat CAST 2016 · on Tuesday, 2016-08-09· at 11:00· Fletcher Challenge Theatre (1900), Simon Fraser University Vancouver 515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3·
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Teams adopt huddles (three‑amigos) and debriefs, publish a “testing for non‑testers” pathway on a public blog, and run an annual in‑house testing conference that draws business analysts. Inviting developers to the Reinventing Testers course wins a 25‑year lead‑dev’s buy‑in, which triggers a tester joining the dev room. Ops brings Splunk logs into testing, a Jenkins workflow visualizes the release pipeline, and a shared Selenium grid project co‑develops infra. Results include clearer testability, more cross‑discipline empathy, and faster feedback loops across ~30 testers on 18 teams.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:40Disciplines
- 2:17Tshaped skills
- 3:30Crossdiscipline
- 5:58Huddles
- 7:00Testing for NonTesters
- 8:42Testing Conference
- 10:32Double Trouble
- 12:45Fire Burning Cauldron
- 15:31Reinventing testers
- 18:27Devops
- 26:07Support
- 32:02Trust
- 35:32Question
- 43:12QA Conference
- 47:47Operations Bonds
- 50:12Colocating
- 52:22Cross Scrum Teams
- 54:52Helping Testers
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