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How products are really made

A three-image collage humorously illustrating the software development process, comparing it to making a pizza shaped like a Minion.

Planning (Top Left): The dough is neatly shaped into the outline of a Minion, representing the initial design phase where the team outlines clear requirements and specifications for the product.

Development (Top Right): The Minion is decorated with toppings like cheese and pepperoni, symbolizing the development phase where features are implemented. The Minion still looks promising, similar to how software development progresses toward the intended outcome.

Production (Bottom Right): After baking, the Minion has lost much of its original shape and details, a humorous analogy for how the final product sometimes turns out after real-world constraints like testing, integration issues, or deployment challenges. This stage highlights the importance of quality assurance and thorough testing to ensure that the product aligns with initial expectations.

It's important to teach new people to software testing that theory sometimes doesn't match up to reality. We can have all the processes, intentions, frameworks and policies. But sometimes what appears in production is not what was intended...even if it still delivers on the basic foundations.

Rosie Sherry

She/Her

CEO & Founder at Ministry of Testing

I've been working in the software testing and quality engineering space since the year 2000 whilst also combining it with my love for education and community building.

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