First of all, for those of you who were following me back in the day, and wondered what happened to me, I'm sorry for falling off the face of the earth. I started this blog because I was doing some cool things with tools for testing and development, and thought I had information people could use on how organizations manage and evaluate different tools. In 2011, I went through a reorg and ended up bouncing around to various shops doing contract work. I didn't think I had anything to discuss, so I just stopped posting and pretty much forgot about this blog.
Fast forward to 2015 and I've been a QA manager for a couple of years testing web applications with various test management, automation and release management tools. I was told I have a pretty good story to tell about testing and test tools, so I felt it was time to resurrect this blog.
The one thing I thought was missing from my blog was more of the operational view and a voice of how someone tests. In my previous job I was managing a portfolio of test and develop tools, but not really using them to get products out the door. Now I'm more on the front lines and have more experience using the techniques and tools to get web products in front of millions of people. It hasn't been an easy ride, but the journey has been fun and I hope people can learn something from it.
I have a couple of motivations for this other than just helping folks. My resolution for this year is to write more, and our department is also tasked with getting our story out, so I want to use this forum to talk about what works for us and our challenges. I'm open to hearing from anyone about topics to discuss, so feel free to reach out to me @todddeaton. Some of the things I want to explore are agile methodologies, lighter testing tools, testing in the cloud, automation and CI, branching and releases.
I'm looking forward to 2015 and hope you enjoy this as much as I will writing this.
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