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Software Quality must be visible to promote a Quality Mindset that improves everyone's individual choices, ultimately minimizing complexity, risk, waste, and suffering. This visibility also reveals our common humanity.
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Team and organizational alignment is essential to making software quality a priority for everyone. Roadmap programs like Test Certified and Quality Quest help provide focus, shape conversations, and show results.
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I left the industry after Google, but not for long. At Apple, the Quality Culture Initiative embraced the power of "Focus and Simplify."
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My Laggard encounter eventually inspired me to organize the Revolution Fixit in January 2008, launching new tools that drastically reduced suffering all across Google.
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Normally I advise steering clear of those who directly resist change, but in this case, honesty and an open mind created a profound opportunity.
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I learned much more about software quality and automated testing at Google—but more importantly, I began learning how to change culture.
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The unsubscribe link is at the very end of the email, if that's how you're reading this. I'll also explain what's going on, and what I've been up to.
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I learned to focus, simplify, and know my own value.
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In a bizarre twist of fate, after a great run at Cvent, I've taken the unexpected opportunity to join Apple.
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A lot of my work at Cvent is reminiscent of my past, but my colleagues and I are discovering how to do it faster and better than we did at Google.
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It's not that I haven't had enough to say these past few months, but rather that I've had too much—including a significant career announcement.
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I attended my first beCamp in Charlottesville, delivered a few talks, and generally had a wonderful time—with one especially hilarious glitch
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I've written a Slack bot in Node.js that files GitHub issues, and a unit testing tutorial in Node.js based on the bot.
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A number of initiatives that I've started within 18F have been taking off, with more to come.
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I've been awarded a January 2015 "Flushy" award for being the first Xoogler (ex-Googler) to write Google Testing on the Toilet episodes.
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I paid a visit to Washington, D.C. this past week, gave a tech talk on unit testing and culture change, and was amazed at the positive energy there.
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My original "goto fail" article has been published online and in print by the Communications of the ACM, the flagship journal of the ACM.
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My original "goto fail" article has been published online by ACM Queue.
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Martin Fowler invited me to contribute an article to his website making a case for unit testing in the wake of "goto fail" and Heartbleed.
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The Google Testing on the Toilet team has published my episode about the Heartbleed bug, and other fronts are showing signs of progress
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The Google Testing on the Toilet team has published my episode about the Apple SSL bug, and I explain why this is for the greater social good.
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Turns out I couldn't let the Apple SSL bug go quite yet, as I've submitted an article to Communications of the ACM for consideration
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Hopefully the Apple SSL bug is out of my system, having given an AutoTest Boston lightning talk and written a Testing on the Toilet-esque article
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I spoke at the first Automated Testing Boston Meetup event, and have just posted on the AutoTest Central blog in the hopes of being useful
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Another Rob Galanakis-inspired post, a reflection on the nature and value of teamwork in the context of my Testing Grouplet and Fixit experiences
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Rob Galanakis, in one brief blog post, points exactly to what made my past Google Testing Grouplet experiences so special and powerful
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It was five years ago today that the Build Tools team, Testing Technology, and Testing Grouplet taught the band to play with Blaze, Forge, and SrcFS
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A thought experiment regarding potential criticisms of my blog, in light of a comment by Rob Galanakis on my Leaving Google post
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The reasons I decided to leave Google, why I decided to return to music and Berklee, and why I've written so much about Google in this blog
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The second Fixit I organized to promote widespread adoption of automated developer testing throughout Google development
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The first Fixit I organized to promote widespread adoption of automated developer testing throughout Google development
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The specific tools the Testing Grouplet, Testing Tech, Build Tools and others developed to improve testing development and efficiency at Google
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The collection of processes Google uses for ensuring software quality, including automated developer testing as promoted by the Testing Grouplet
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The basics of how automated tests should--and should not--be written, as promoted by the Testing Grouplet at Google
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In the middle of moving to Boston, I find an old email to friends sent at the beginning of my adventures with the Testing Grouplet at Google.
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Fighting back against critics of automated developer testing in light of the Testing Grouplet et. al.'s impact on Google development
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The fundamental object-oriented programming issues which produced Google's testing challenges and the solutions promoted by the Testing Grouplet
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The high-level cultural challenges to the adoption of automated developer testing at Google which the Testing Grouplet worked to overcome
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Everything I've been saying and will say in this blog about the Testing Grouplet, Test Certified, and Fixits at Google, compressed
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A team of developers within Google dedicated to helping development teams participate in the Testing Grouplet's Test Certified program
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The homegrown continuous integration and test system that powered the Testing Grouplet's Test Certified program at Google before TAP
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The before-and-after picture of the Testing Grouplet et. al.'s impact on Google Engineering
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Publicly-facing details about Google to which I contributed in a significant way
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The Testing Grouplet's terminology for getting Google engineers to think about the different scopes of automated tests
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The Testing Grouplet's weekly publication for spreading testing news and views throughout Google, in the most opportune of places
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The Testing Grouplet's program for promoting good automated developer testing practices throughout Google Engineering
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Fixits, when engineers throughout Google focus on back-burner issues for a day—and, more importantly, Fixit schwag
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The grassroots volunteer team which made automated developer testing a core practice of Google engineering culture--and had fun doing it
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Google Engineering Grouplets, aka Intergroups, Intergrouplets: Volunteers using their 20% time to make Google Engineering better