Pradeep Soundararajan’s Post

The time has come to restart my blogging. Here’s one from an year ago! https://lnkd.in/gUTMjsGW

6 testing lessons to learn from RCB win against CSK 1. Automation is a commodity today. Everyone does it. No longer a premium value. 2. Most people thinking of using A.I. in testing is going to think of it as an efficiency improvement tool just like how they used automation against human testing. 3. Using A.I. in testing without reinventing testing won’t change any useful metrics for the company. 4. Fearless thinking by testers to reinvent testing is a diminishing skill. 5. Testers (most) are poor adopters of new tech unless it is popular / there are JD’s talking about it / employers are asking for it / people with that new tech are getting more pay. 6. Value of testing unless it is translated back to business will remain a cheap (but necessary)activity or in other cases the budget allocated to it has already peaked in this world. Of course the title is a click bait and mock bait! 🙏

The future of testing and automation is not no-code. It is no “so many people”! Just experts!

There's an incredible story in this post about solving a testing and automation problem with the right use of humans + automation. We discovered a large enterprise who had enough automation over the last 5 years for a product. It had 2 problems: 1. It worked but couldn't scale. 2. A lot of time goes to assess false positives and false negatives post run. So, essentially, the value of automation diminished and this did leak bugs to production. How? When organizations think - we have automation so we don't need humans testing it - and when in such a case where automation failed - and by the time the management learnt about it - the customers were already getting frustrated with leaked bugs A lot of tech debt accumulated and lot of human work + automation needed to rebuild confidence back on automation and put the focus back on product value to customers. So, they were looking at finding a partner who can help re-build or build scalability into it. They tapped large IT services of India (of course, Big Boys work with Big Boys) and none of them could address it. Yay! Now comes the little sister Moolya. Sisters are always helpful. Moolya team briliantly found a lateral approach to fixing their problem statement and enabled them in demonstrating how their trust on automation could come back and the balance of humans and automation to bring the focus back on customer value. Also this was done in a record time. The pic has some (of the many) brilliant people who have solved similar problems across customers in Moolya and have completed 5+ years in Moolya itself.

The flipside of building and releasing things super fast Everyone today loves building and releasing things super fast Why? All of us seek adventure in our lives Like the pilots who ride a fighter jet, we need something As engineers in software, we found the super fast way to do it Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 3, Mach 4 and now Mach 5 achieved with fighter jet We want to also do in in software Here's how do we do it? Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Add more people Make the plane super heavy - it nose dives The super sonic fighter jets carry 2 people at max To go super sonic and have too many people is creating Concorde again Bring the focus on value to customers The minimal set of people required to build value is what a company should have and everything else should be outsourced. Edit: Build value - hire your own team Maintain value already built - outsource

Paul Holland is the sweetest person and a master, DS and I have had the pleasure to work with. Just day before yesterday, I said this over in a call with DS - “If only we knew how to be like Paul Holland” over a call. Now he has been kind to grab the book “Growth Driven Testing” and he has been instrumental along with Perze Ababa Huib Schoots to trust Moolya on critical projects and by the grace of the good people in Moolya, we were able to keep their flag flying high! 🙏

Looking forward to this wonderful opportunity to work with someone who can transform Bugasura.io and my life.

Simple true world puzzle: There’s a nasty bug in a corner case. 20% of the testers will find it. 80% of that 20% will not know how to report it coherently. 80% of the balance 20% will report it as a bug without being able to talk about the impact. 80% of that 20% who can talk about the impact - won’t follow up the bug to closure. 80% of the the pending testers won’t be able to measure the impact they have had on the business and use that to influence business, product and tech teams. 20% of testers who are able to influence, will grow to a VP level role in an org. 1% in that will reach a C level role. 2 questions to answer: A) What percentage of testers will be able to measure the impact they have had on the business, product and tech and become influential? B) What percentage of testers will reach the C level?