Alan page explains how the modern testing principles reflect the how testing actually happens in a healthy way in modern software development teams. View alan pages profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Alan page is director of test excellence where he oversees technical training and provides consulting for microsoft testers. Alan spent over twenty years at microsoft working on a variety of operating systems and applications in nearly every microsoft division.
Alan drops much more testing knowledge bombs in episode 44 alan page. Alan page and brent jensen have been talking about what they call, modern testing which is really just an approach for creating quality software, and isnt so much about testing for several years. Published by alan page on february 15, 2020 february 15, 2020 once again, im a day late, but who am i kidding you read these on monday anyway. While software testing has always been changing and evolving, the changes many of us are seeing recently go well beyond the scope of changes weve seen in.
Mma midi musical accompaniment is a command line program that takes plain text input and turns it into a midi file. Under the covers of test automation available from leanpub. Testing lessons learned at microsoft with alan page. Great testers are those that investigate the software and can find. Python testing for software engineers is 2020 by brian okken.
Alan was the lead author of the book how we test software at microsoft. Its a slightly nerdier alternative to the bandinabox software i used 20 years ago. Agile software testing and development consultancy alan richardson. By alan page, quality director, unity technologies today, i received yetanother email from a testware vendor telling me how i could get more roi from my testing efforts.
Most of us in software testing have heard leaders or read articles. Rethinking software development, testing and inspection cio. Alan page discusses where new test ideas come from, and how anyone can use learning, creativity, pattern recognition and pragmatism to discover and apply new ideas anywhere. Rethinking software development, testing and inspection michael fagan first found software inspections yielded a massive productivity improvement when working for ibm in the early 1970s. Alan page has been a software tester for nearly 20 years. Ken johnstonis group manager for the microsoft office internet platform and operations team. Tooth of the weasel notes and rants about software and. In how we test software at microsoft, alan page, ken johnston, and bj rollison provide a terrific mix of insight into microsoft, along with indepth explanations of practical test processes.
More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests. Join the dzone community and get the full member experience. Alan page has been a software tester for over 25 years, and is currently the director of quality for services at unity technologies. Alan page is a keynote speaker at the eurostar software testing conference in amsterdam in november 2012.
Modern testing, and its accompanying seven principles, provide a philosophy for delivering highquality software that customers love delivered by the whole team. Testing lessons learned at microsoft with alan page joe colantonio. In an agile, shiftleft world, many testers might be asking, what is a tester supposed to do now. Alan page, author at testproject test automation blog. Almost everything alan page has written about test automation 2 can also be applied to game testing. Alan has been improving software quality since 1993 and is currently the director of programs for monetization services at unity. Hes one of microsofts first test architects and has worked on various versions of windows and windows ce.
Differences between software testing and game testing. Modern testing, as coined by alan page and brent jensen, is the antidote for traditional testlast approaches. In their book how we test software at microsoft, alan page and his coauthors refer to this as testing in production. Alan page has been a software tester among other roles since 1993 and is currently the director of quality for services at unity. He is a former test lead, test manager, and director of test excellence. More than twentyfive years of software development and software testing. Alan page is a frequent speaker at industry testing and software engineering conferences. In this keynote session, longtime tester alan page shares his take on. Instead of config flags, their team has different versions of the. I consult, coach and mentor teams to help them better test, automate and deliver, improved quality software.
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