Quality Bits

It's no surprise that this episode's guest Lewis Prescott has a website called "pactman". Pact is a popular contract testing tool, and Lewis is indeed a man who can tell quite a bit about Pact and contract testing. In this conversation, you'll learn more about contract testing, its benefits, misconceptions, and where to start.  Find Lewis on : - LinkedIn: https://www.linke...

Amy Sandler is a lead coach and podcast host at Radical Candor . Most of the people in tech (and not only) know the Radical Candor framework and its bestselling book. In this story-fuelled podcast episode, you'll learn what the Radical Candor framework is, why dreams matter, what communication mistakes we make and how to avoid them, and how to give effective feedback and help people we work w...

Aleksandra Kornecka turned from a QA into a Security Engineer. In this episode, Lina talks to Aleksandra to learn more about this switch, the importance of security, and its parallels with quality. You'll learn about threat modeling, where to start when learning more about security, and so much more, including some anecdotes referencing the most famous hacker in pop culture - Mr. Robot. Find...

Are you curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of product development? Want to know who's really responsible for the products we build and how to ensure they're valuable? Tune in to this episode of our podcast, where we sit down with guest Andrea Sipos, a seasoned product manager who shares her insights and expertise on the role of a product manager, the differences between product...

Testing in production: scary abnormality or familiar regularity? In this episode, Lina talks to Rouan about the role of a QA that is more than testing and testing in production. You'll hear about the misconceptions of testing in production, the requirements for reliable testing in production, and even how to clean up your messy alerting systems. Find Rouan on : - His website: https://www.roua...

It's the 10th episode of Quality Bits! 🎉 That calls for a celebration, so here are four quality bits of... Quality Bits! Lina shares her favorite parts of conversations with four inspiring previous guests. Starting off, you'll hear Finn Lorbeer sharing about his experimentation of removing a QA column (all while working as a QA himself). Then Maaret Pyhäjärvi's ideas on growth and...

Infrastructure as code - is it possible to test it? What opportunities are there in cloud? How can code standards support us in building high-quality products? About all this and more listen to this episode of Quality Bits with Daniel Mohacsi, DevOps Lead at Lufthansa Systems Hungary. Find Daniel on : - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dani-mohácsi-0604a652/ References: Tools supporting testi...

What it's like to work in game industry? Is testing games just fun and games? In this episode of Quality Bits, you'll get a chance to learn the answers to these questions and so much more. Lina talks to Stuart Crocker who is currently working as a Head of Quality Engineering with no... quality engineer roles, has plenty of stories to share about game testing, and even the use of machine...

In this episode, Lina talks to the feedback fairy, a well-known voice in the testing (and not only) community - Maaret Pyhäjärvi about the different readiness for changes in team and supporting the growth journeys. Find Maaret on : - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaret/ - Her website: https://maaretp.com - Mastodon: https://mas.to/@maaretp Book recommendations:  "Radical Candor: Be a...

"Companies have to have zero tolerance for racism. Zero tolerance for sexism. Zero tolerance for homophobia." - Amy Weidner Amy is a DE&I Program Manager at Twitter with an extensive experience in recruitment. In this episode, Lina and Amy discuss privilege sharing, culture fit vs. culture add, and how we can improve our workspaces. Find Amy on : - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/...

Ever joined a new company? I bet. The start is always challenging, and as Angela Riggs says "you have to learn to learn". In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina and Angela discuss the feelings you may face in a new workplace, the job of a QA manager, setting boundaries, and management practices which support the high-quality product building teams. Find Angela on : - Her website: https://...

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to a QA-turned-Director-of-Engineering Finn Lorbeer about his past days of ripping off the QA column as a QA, the differences in driving change when you're a team member versus in a leadership position, and why having fun in the team matters. Find Finn on : - Twitter: https://twitter.com/finnlorbeer - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorbeer/ R...

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Alaa Sarhan, the CTO at wundertax. Alaa is not only a great engineer, but also someone who is passionate and caring when it comes to product. You'll hear about the idea of perceived quality, as well as how to balance off product and engineering when creating high-quality products. Find Alaa on : - Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlaaSarhan_WTX - Lin...

In this episode of Quality Bits, you'll hear about so many aspects of building the right product . Lina's guest is Nadine Oldorf who shares her experience on stakeholder management, continuous discovery, working on writing user stories, or why there may be resistance from delivery teams when it comes to product feature building. You'll learn not only about building the right product...

In this initial episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Steve Upton about the definition of quality, Cynefin, deleting the bugs (?!!!), and so much more. Find Steve on : - Twitter: https://twitter.com/steve_upton?lang=en - LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/stevejupton Book recommendations: "Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions" by Gary Klein "Dynamics in Action: Intentional...

What's Quality Bits? Who is it for? And... why is it called Quality Bits?  In the short trailer, host Lina Zubyte shares a story of the name and provides a glimpse of what to expect in the following episodes. Follow Quality Bits host Lina Zubyte on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/buggylina - LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/linazubyte - Website: https://qualitybits.tech/ Thank you for lis...