Who’s Writing These Things

One of the interesting challenges with multi-disciplinary teams is figuring out who’s doing what. Especially now that quality is a team responsibility.

Because not only does testing now blend what has been two traditional separate camps in software (development and testing), we now get to deal with all the different words, meanings, and sometimes even different philosophies that go into the purpose of automated testing itself!

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For example, for devs, automated testing is all about speed. Automated tests (specifically unit tests) are what enable developers to move fast without breaking stuff. Unit tests run quickly. They ...

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