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…4 min read·May 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…7 min read·Apr 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…7 min read·Apr 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…5 min read·Mar 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…4 min read·Mar 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…9 min read·Mar 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 .”…6 min read·Feb 24, 2020--1--1
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…6 min read·Jan 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…12 min read·Dec 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…9 min read·Dec 9, 2019----