Erik FogginProdPerfectThe Future QA Industry: Which Platforms and Toolsets Will Come Out on Top?The Quality Assurance (QA) industry is currently undergoing a massive proliferation of new toolsets, most of which will no longer be here…May 28, 2020May 28, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfectDevelopment Versus QA: Ending the Battle Once and for All — ProdPerfectIt’s an accepted norm in software engineering that quality assurance (QA) engineers and developers will be perpetually at odds. We are so…Apr 27, 2020Apr 27, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfectWhy Test Suites Fail-And How to Avoid Breakdowns — ProdPerfectEnd-to-end (E2E) software testing suites, such as those written in Selenium, frequently fall derelict or fail outright. And while stories…Apr 6, 2020Apr 6, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfectDoing More with Less: A Model for Growth in An Impending Recession — ProdPerfectOf course we all view impending economic recession with dread. Economic crises are felt across all aspects of our businesses and our lives…Mar 24, 2020Mar 24, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfect‘Why Didn’t This Get Tested?’ End-to-End Testing with Live User Data — ProdPerfectInsufficient or inconsistent quality assurance test coverage leads to bugs in production, which negatively impact cost, revenue, customer…Mar 12, 2020Mar 12, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfectHow Organizational Burnout Led to the 1986 Challenger Disaster, and What Engineering Teams Can…Imagine the morning of January 28, 1986. You are sitting in mission control, tensely and helplessly watching as the Challenger space…Mar 11, 2020Mar 11, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfectBreaking Iron Triangle Thinking: A New Approach to Agile vs. Continuous TestingWhen I used to work as a project management consultant, I would hear brilliant leaders around me say: “ Speed, quality, cost. Pick two .”…Feb 24, 20201Feb 24, 20201
Erik FogginProdPerfectBeyond Whack-A-Mole: Shifting From a Reactive to Proactive E2E Testing StrategyPrior to co-founding ProdPerfect, I used to do some consulting work with factories. Operations such as oil refineries are able to clearly…Jan 7, 2020Jan 7, 2020
Erik FogginProdPerfectPower and Liberation in HumilityHumility is modesty. It is not an act, it is not an etiquette by which you under-sell yourself in order to secretly impress others with…Dec 16, 2019Dec 16, 2019
Erik FogginProdPerfectThe seismic shift in how we test softwareAs it’s been since ARPANET, functional web software today is mostly shipped by luck, duct tape, or sheer will. Ask any engineer with…Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019