Happy World Quality Day!

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:tada: Happy World Quality Day! :woman_genie: If today, you could have any quality wish granted, what would that wish be?

(:wrapped_gift: Bonus points: What is one step you could take to make your wish come true?)

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I wish to become an expert at leading quality initiatives lower in the test pyramid.

The one step to do that is having the help of AI to get started and then explore by self learning.

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My quality wish? That production bugs would announce themselves with a dramatic movie trailer voice: “IN A WORLD… where this edge case was never tested…”

Reality check: I’ll settle for better documentation and more time for exploratory testing!

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Love this, Christine!

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Please let us know how it goes!

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I always suspected there was a “world quality day” but now that I’ve missed it, I’m asking myself, not only why did I miss it. But also why do all these, like world kindness day recently, just zoom by?

My wish, is for better tools documentation. I find so many tools and libraries on repos, and both large and small sites that not only have no “best-before” date, but also have no “why on earth did I make this tool” statement.

  • The bad. There is a huge quality effort gap in todays world where there are always a huge handful of tools to choose from, recently I wanted an XML←→JSon tool, which it only later emerged, was unable to rewrite XML at the same time. All unclear from the tool description. It’s hard enough to look at licenses, and check that the code even runs still, but to discover it has limitations only after you download is not sweet.
  • Good examples : Gtest GoogleTest Primer | GoogleTest
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I’m lucky to be learning from William Scherkenbach, who was taught by W. Edwards Deming. My quality day wish would be to be transported back in time so I too could have been taught by W. Edwards Deming.

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I feel this so much. Many of the tools I try don’t have clear setup instructions, and I drop them or bring them to the team for help because I am absolutely stuck. If there is a tool that I really want, and think it will be useful, but can’t find documentation on it, if I’m able to add it and solve for the undocumented problems, I use that as blog post inspiration, if only for myself. I don’t want to forget how I did what I did!

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