Movie Night - The Forgotten 'ility - Ash Winter

To continue our Testability theme, our next Movie Night is a throwback to Ash Winter's talk from TestBash Netherlands 2017 - "The Forgotten 'ility"

Presentation Bio:
You know what we don't talk about enough. Testability. I don't just mean testers either. Everybody. The benefits of testability are often forgotten, left until it’s too late, we are left scratching our heads as to why the system is doing that and how unaware we were.

If we know how to talk about testability in a compelling way, showing the benefits for all stakeholders, I believe it can be a central part of a product and seen as essential. In the age of focus on the narrowing gap between development and operations, testability shares many those goals, with feature flagging, effective monitoring and log management (to name but a few) synonymous with control and observability. And that is just the start of the benefits of a testability focus can bring.

I'll share a few stories that have taught me a great deal, plus the how the work of others has helped me along the way. All in hope of energizing those in attendance to use their new found testability focus in their workplace. After all, if its controllable and observable to some degree, its testable. If it’s not, how effective is your testing? And if it’s not testable, then how will you support it when its live?

Speaker Bio:
Ash Winter is a learning tester & conference speaker with an eye for an untested assumption or claim. Veteran of various roles encompassing testing, performance engineering and automation. As a team member delivering mobile apps and web services or a leader of teams and change. He helps teams think about testing problems, asking questions and coaching when invited.

A co-organiser for the Leeds Testing Atelier, a full day testing workshop. Its mission is to give those involved in testing a platform to share their stories. It attracts over 100 attendees from various disciplines.