Quality Bits

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High-quality products and teams: what are those? In this podcast, Lina Zubyte takes you on a journey to understand better how to create more efficient and successful tech products with excellent quality.

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May 28, 2024Episode 2044 min

Ethics in Tech and Games with Catherine Flick

How can we know that the products we're building are going to make a positive impact on the world? Could it be that it's only good for people like us, but does harm to others? What can we as individuals do to improve the products we're building? In this season finale episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Catherine Flick, a Professor of Ethics and Games Technology at Staffordshire University. Tune in to learn some fascinating research and stories about ethics, tech, and... video games. Find Catherine on : Her website: https://liedra.net/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-flick/ Mentions and resources: The exercise of the Black Mirror Writer's Room by Casey Fiesler: https://cfiesler.medium.com/the-black-mirror-writers-room-teaching-technology-ethics-through-speculation-f1a9e2deccf4 ACM's Code of Ethics: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte X: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

May 14, 2024Episode 1945 min

What We Can Learn from Deming about Building Great Products with John Willis

Have you ever heard of W. Edwards Deming? What about... the Toyota way? Lean? DevOps? John Willis is one of the pioneers of the DevOps movement, and, has recently released a book "Deming's Journey to the Profound Knowledge". In this latest episode of Quality Bits you'll hear more about this book, and the ideas of Deming that we can still learn so much from when wanting to build high-quality products and teams. Find John on : His website: http://www.johnwillis.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwillisatlanta/ Mentions and resources: Article "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt Books 📚 : "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future" by John Willis "The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations" by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford "Toyota Kata" by Mike Rother "The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition" by Steven J. Spear "Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification" by Gene Kim, Steven J. Spear "Out of the Crisis" by W. Edwards Deming "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education" by W. Edwards Deming "Thinking in Systems" by Donella H. Meadows Links to books are to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte X: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

April 30, 2024Episode 1833 min

Unlocking Potential: Accessibility in Products & Workplace with Azra Tayyebi

Imagine the world with no sight. No hearing. No mobility. It's hard to comprehend how to navigate the world then. It's a reality for more people than we imagine. It also may have been or might be yours - there as well may be situational or temporary times in your life when you need a more accessible world. In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to an accessibility consultant Azra Tayyebi. Tune in to learn more about accessibility, its misconceptions, where we all can improve, and how we can create not only more inclusive products but society overall. Find Azra on : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azra-tayyebi-5494b227b/ Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte X: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

April 16, 2024Episode 1740 min

Team Glue & Why QA is a Tech Leadership Role with Vernon Richards

What does it mean to be a "team glue"? Why does it matter? Why QA should be positioned as a tech leadership role? Tune in the latest episode with the inspiring Vernon Richards to get the answers to these questions and so much more. Find Vernon on : His website: https://www.vernonrichards.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vernonrichards/ X: https://twitter.com/TesterFromLeic Mentions and resources: Tanya Reilly on Team Glue: https://noidea.dog/glue A conversation with Kanika Selvan (could not find yet her talk Pet to Threat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0LY5iOZN14 On brag documents: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ Diary of the CEO podcast with Adam Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPXjt6beYbg Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte X: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

April 2, 2024Episode 1635 min

Continuous Learning in a Busy World with Marie Cruz

Learning is essential, but... It's easy to fall into a learning fatigue. It can feel like one more thing in our already overflowing to-do list. To make matters more challenging, the number of online resources to learn from is growing daily. Marie Cruz is a Senior Developer Advocate: her job is to learn and share what she has learned. In this episode, Lina talks to Marie about creating the habit of continuous learning in this busy world. You'll get a chance to learn from some of the best Marie's tips and resources on approaching your learning journeys better. Find Marie on : Her website: https://www.testingwithmarie.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariedesireecruz/ X: https://twitter.com/mcruzdrake Mentions and resources: Adobo and Avocados live stream Marie does with Nicole (our previous guest, too, check out listening recommendations below): https://www.youtube.com/@adoboandavocados Test Automation University: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/ Ministry of Testing 30 days challenges: 30 Days of Testing 30 Days of Accessibility Testing Books 📚: "Atomic Habits" by James Clear "The Compound Effect" by Darren Hardy "Mindset" by Carol S. Dweck Links to books are to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy these past episode of Quality Bits: Learning Culture, Collaboration, and Experiments with Andrei Bechet https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/14182594 Performance Testing with Nicole van der Hoeven https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/13909242 Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

March 19, 2024Episode 1541 min

Testing Better: Breaking Down E2E tests with Bas Dijkstra

Automated E2E (end-to-end) tests frequently are the first thing companies introduce trying to reduce the efforts of manual testing: "There's this big manual testing regression suite, so why don't we automate it? Right? ... Right?" Well, Bas Dijkstra thinks otherwise. In this episode, we'll talk about automating the right things instead, and, why E2E tests are not always the best idea. You'll hear about test models, test ownership, and where to start when you want to learn more about automation in a bit less common way than most of testing courses recommend. Find Bas on : His website: https://www.ontestautomation.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basdijkstra/ Mentions and resources: Bas' article "Breaking down your E2E tests - an example": https://www.ontestautomation.com/breaking-down-your-e2e-tests-an-example/ Other recommendations by Bas: Article "Proving E2E Tests are a Scam" by Elliot Murray: https://elliottmurray.medium.com/proving-e2e-tests-are-a-scam-21d39e88913 How to grow in automation: Bas' learning path suggestion: https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resources/test-automation/a-test-automation-learning-path/ "Quality Engineer Learning Roadmap" by Blake Norrish: https://medium.com/slalom-build/quality-engineer-learning-roadmap-fddfcb77409e Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

March 5, 2024Episode 1444 min

Modern Testing with Alan Page

More and more software delivery teams embrace the whole team quality approach. Where does testing fit into that? Modern testing principles are there to help to understand what the industry is moving towards. In this episode, Lina talks to Alan Page - one of the creators of modern testing principles. He's an avid blogger who has quite a few opinions on better software delivery. Tune into this episode to learn more about how modern testing principles can help to embrace the whole team quality approach, and more. Find Alan on : His website: https://angryweasel.com/blog/ Substack: https://substack.com/@angryweasel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-l-a-n/ Mentions and resources: Modern Testing: https://www.moderntesting.org/ Alan's article "Don't blame me": https://angryweasel.substack.com/p/dont-blame-me Books 📚 "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig "Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops" by Nicole Forsgren et al "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" by John Willis Links to books are to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

February 20, 2024Episode 1336 min

The Art of Persuasion with Thomas Shipley

Ever been in a situation where you're trying to make a point to someone and as much as you try to phrase it differently, it just does not go through? On the other side, have you ever had someone approach you and despite you first having the opposing point of view, they quickly convince you otherwise? Those are the persuasion skills in action. After hearing Thomas Shipley's talk on persuasion, Lina talks to him about it in this episode. Tune in to learn more about 3 Ps of persuasion, in which situations you could benefit from those skills, and why it matters overall. Find Thomas on : His website: https://tomdriven.dev/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshipley/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomdrivendev Mentions and resources: Thomas` talk on persuasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFOIzzwMSi4 Books "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It" by Chris Voss "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman Links to books are to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits: Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

February 6, 2024Episode 1236 min

Internationalization: Building Globally Aware Products with Chen Hui Jing

As of February, 2024, English is the most popular language for web content. The world is not only people who speak English, though. If we do not make the content and products in other languages, how can people even know that it exists and benefit from it? In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Chen Hui Jing, a front-end developer passionate about internationalization. Tune in to learn how internationalization differs from localization, why it matters, what fairly low effort things we can do to build more inclusive and diverse products and web, and more. Find Hui Jing on : Her website: https://chenhuijing.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/huijingchen/ Mastodon: https://tech.lgbt/@huijing Mentions and resources: W3C: https://www.w3.org/ W3C GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/ The Type podcast on Chinese typography (in Chinese): https://www.thetype.com/ If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits: Generic Design for Diverse Environments with Joe Cooper https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/13802413 Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨

January 23, 2024Episode 1134 min

DevOps Ideology & Testing in DevOps with Jani Haapala

What is DevOps? Is it just continuous releases and speed? How do we test in teams embracing DevOps? Jani Haapala is a DevOps Architect with a Quality Consultant title. In this episode, Lina talks to Jani about that fluffy word of "DevOps", the misconceptions about it, and testing in DevOps. You'll learn more about the concept, get some stories on what good quality there looks like, and gather further resources to deepen your knowledge. Find Jani on : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janihaapala/ Mentions and resources: Dan Ashby's "Continuous Testing in DevOps" article: https://danashby.co.uk/2016/10/19/continuous-testing-in-devops/ Goldratt's Theory of Constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints DevOps website: https://devops.com/ The New Stack: https://thenewstack.io/ Books 📚: Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, John Allspaw "The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations" Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" Eliyahu M Goldratt, Jeff Cox "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement" Links to books are to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases If you liked this episode, you may as well enjoy this past episode of Quality Bits: Cloud, Infrastructure as Code and Testing IaC with Daniel Mohacsi https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037134/11743019 Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@linazubyte Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte/ Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Follow Quality Bits on your favorite listening platform and Twitter: https://twitter.com/qualitybitstech to stay updated with future content. If you like this podcast and would like to support its making, feel free to buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/linazubyte Thank you for listening! ✨