Jun 15, 2021Watch information sources like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to learn whether your email address or phone number was part of a breach. If you don’t want to do this yourself, there are identity monitoring services that will watch them…Forgot Your Password? If Not, You Should.81Mike DuskisIs there anything you can do if your phone number was breached (other than getting a new phone…Is there anything you can do if your phone number was breached (other than getting a new phone number)?1 min readIs there anything you can do if your phone number was breached (other than getting a new phone number)?----
May 28, 2021Managing self-managed teams!!?Self managed teams became popular with the agile movement in software development. However, there isn’t a lot of advice on what it means to manage teams, nor what managers should do when a team self manages. (There is a lot of advice on coaching and organization culture.) Line management has…4 min read
Feb 8, 2021Parsing “Testing in DevOps” (and “Continuous Testing”)In 2016, Dan Ashby wrote a blog post, ‘Continuous Testing in DevOps’. The post included a hand drawn sketch of the DevOps loop and a modification on how to include testing. Dan explained that this meant testing in all parts of the DevOps model. …Dev Ops7 min read
Jan 17, 2021Who will monitor the monitors?Monitoring has been a very important concept in network or infrastructure operations for a long time. It has got much more attention in DevOps as part of the feedback loop on operations. I happened to sit in on a few DevOps/Ops engineers, talking about monitoring, to a junior engineer, among…7 min read
Jan 10, 2021User Stories as a negotiation between problems and solutionsAgile software development radically changed the nature of software creation. One of the hallmarks of agile is the creation of small increments of end user functionality as opposed to creating software in one or few large portions. Agile also included many other innovations such as starting with confirmatory tests as…7 min read
Nov 1, 2020DevOps Defect Catalog — from 1988’s Cem KanerGood ideas in software testing endure, despite changes in technology and development approaches. In 1988, Cem Kaner first described a ‘defect catalog’ for software in his landmark book, Testing Computer Software. …Dev Ops7 min read
Oct 28, 2020Anticipating Problems with Infrastructure as Code in DevOpsThere are different interpretations of the term, ‘DevOps’. However, in the DevOps values — CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing), culture is considered the most important value. The methodology begins by looking for the right people or person to fulfill a needed role. Secondly, ensure that role’s process is correct and…Dev Ops6 min read
Oct 26, 2020Flip on the Testing switch for Ops-DevOps engineersIf you are an operations or infrastructure type engineer, testing may mean traditional “QA”, UAT or the newer test automation. An alternate way to think about tests is that you are asking a question about the software or infrastructure. The question is open ended — there is no definitive answer…Dev Ops3 min read
Oct 22, 2020Window on API testingWhen testing API you use tools like Postman or write tests in Java, Python or another language. Reviewing defects reported by users, reveals critical techniques that you can use to test API. In this blog post, I review defects in a Python package to access Twitter, to get insights on…Testing10 min read
Oct 20, 2020A Human’s guide to testing AIWhat does it mean to test AI? If you look at the spam detection feature in your email, it sometimes works, less often doesn’t. Even if you flag items as not spam, some again show up in spam after some time. You could categorize that as a machine learning FAIL? …Testing8 min read
