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Michaël PilaetenTest Manager
You should read my blog, because it gives an interesting overview of my day-to-day activities and the challenges I encounter every day.
Michaël Pilaeten
The child or the bathwater?
As a test manager, almost every decision you have to make faces serious consequences.
Take for example my current project at customer X. Customer X has 3 different environments: ITT (voor system/developer tests), UAT (voor system integration and user acceptance tests) and PROD (the production environment).
To deploy an a different environment, certain quality gates should be taken into account.
The troubles with testing
I agree completely: testing is fun.
But it can also be a real pain in the "behind".
Yesterday, tests for one of my projects have started. The first scneario's were executed, defects were logged, meetings were held, ... Business as usual. My team was working very hard at finding the most important defects first.
And then, this morning... Nothing works anymore.
The reason: an unplanned deployment of another application. No one was aware, nor informed. Multiple projects are blocked. ETA for a fix: tonight at the earliest.
Thinking together
Last Friday, a group of CTG testers with a level 6 or higher wasinvited to join in on a strategical session.
The goal? To explain the business plan for testing in 2010, and to ask us for remarks and a path to the future. Because that is what CTG is all about: working together towards a goal, with a broad view on all trends - and pitfalls - that are currently on the market.
The whole concept on CTG 2.0 was on the table, ready to be chopped in pieces and to be dissected into ideas, opinions, plans and goals.
Welcome
Just a few lines to wish you a warm welcome to this blog.
Please stay tuned for regular stories about CTG, testing, and maybe my personal life.
Enjoy!