Thanks for sharing this, Brian! x-posting to teampractices On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Brian Gerstle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Short "case study" at LinkedIn [0] > < > http://engineering.linkedin.com/developer-happiness/getting-code-production-less-friction-and-high-quality > > > about how they cut release latencies by 80-90% by reversing the "ice cream > cone of death" [1] > <http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/InitialState-Fun.png > >: > > There's one particular snippet that strongly resonates with what I've > experienced at multiple jobs (emphasis mine): > > *Team ownership of quality* > > > > Quality is the responsibility of the *whole team*. Quality control is most > > efficiently achieved if software quality is considered at *every step in > > the development cycle*. A software quality process will benefit from an > > appropriate distribution of test automation ownership between teams > > cooperating in a software development effort. > > > In other words: QA aren't the only ones responsible for tests. I would go a > step (or several) further and explicitly suggest that testing needs to be > considered at—or an integral part of—the design & planning processes. > Rich Hickey goes even further in his talk about "Hammock Driven > Development" > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc> (highly recommended: TL;DR; > people start work before fully understanding the problem space). > > Things seem to be trending up at WMF, especially w/ the Web engineers' big > strides in end-to-end testing. However, as the article suggests, you need > to attack the quality problem from both ends—perhaps even emphasizing unit > tests (shortest feedback, cheapest, least fragile). > > 0: > > http://engineering.linkedin.com/developer-happiness/getting-code-production-less-friction-and-high-quality > 1: > http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/InitialState-Fun.png, > thanks to Zeljko for introducing me to that fun term, much better than > "upside-down pyramid" > > -- > EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle > IRC: bgerstle > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Arthur Richards Team Practices Manager [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
