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The Impact of Widespread Downtime
This week, Verizon experienced a massive nationwide outage that lasted for about 10 hours. What can we learn from this? Quantifying Impacts of Quality It can be difficult to fully quantify the impacts of bugs, glitches, flaws in software. Quality by definition is qualitative, not quantitative. But when a major company reports a massive, nationwide
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Working With Disability, Not Against Disability
October is National Disability Employee Awareness Month. People with disabilities face a higher unemployment rate, and those that are employed are often underemployed and underpaid. Yes, disabled people may have needs that abled people do not. They may need accessibility options or accommodations. This is a form of equity and equality; it’s not about giving
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Adventures in AI: Boundaries and Data Access
I have to say that I’m very bearish about A.I. for a variety of reasons. I hope to turn this into a series of articles about A.I. from the perspective of a Software Quality Engineer. I’m a computer scientist by training, quality engineer by trade, and a tech ethicist by practice. Ethics in tech matters
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Software Testing vs QA vs QE – What’s the difference?
We look at the differences between the terms: software testing, Quality Assurance, & Quality Engineering. We believe quality engineering is about people, process, & product.
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Why software testing is one of the hardest computer science problems!
11 reasons why we believe testing software is one of the most difficult computer science problems to solve!