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