Philippa Jennings
Philippa Jennings
Head of Quality
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I love talking about how building Quality in continuously from the start can help us to deliver great software through a strategic blend of exploratory testing, automation, and quality coaching.
🎂 MoTaBirthday | November 20, 2022
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The talks I heard today reminded me that AI hasn't rewritten the rules of quality thinking, it's just raised the cost of ignoring them. Shift-left and shift-right, risk-based prioritisation, separa...
19 Jun
I had a great chat with Philippa at LWAI (Leading with AI) today which stood out. I mentioned how when writing a skill at work with the team, I’d suggest asking that AI what it has assumed. Ju...
19 Jun
Almost like a 'Spot the difference' game, they've matched without any pre-agreements! Assigning both of them the 'We're a Match' Community Star. I'll invite you to do the same 😁
19 Jun
Yesterday I watched a talk by Phillipa Jennings and they asked us to imagine what type of gate we might be standing next to. For example saying "no" that can't go through the gate. "Yes" this can g...
13 Mar
Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
20 Oct
Balance automation with exploration using the Information Model and 6Qs of Quality to achieve continuous quality.
20 Oct
Quality
Quality is contextual but measurable via collaboratively defined signals across user, business, engineering, and operational perspectives.
Test coverage
Coverage is a signal, not proof or assurance. Quality comes from understanding risks, behaviours, interactions, uncertainties, usability, accessibility and emergent failure modes.
Continuous Quality
There are bound to be many different definitions of Continuous Quality, just as there are with many things related to the term Quality.Personally, I believe it refers to something bigger than just the SDLC. There are so many elements that need to come together in order to achieve Quality and not all of them are obviously a part of the SDLC in it's simplicity of Ideation to Production. — Philippa Jennings
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Dissolving the Quality Gate - Phillipa Jennings
Thank you so much for celebrating my talk from PeersCon Melissa. I think it is incredible just how many gates we as testers are still standing next to -- where we are still acting as the guard between the 'work' and the 'world' as per when it was first introduced back in the 1970s.
We can keep trying to shift the gate by doing things earlier, but I firmly believe that we need to focus on Quality as a System, to underpin how we approach our products and our product quality from the start.
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