Free Release Tracking Template

Release Tracking Template

In my shop, we each have official "Goals" which help form the basis of our annual bonuses.

All of the folks on my QA Team, have one Goal related to successful releases. Here, "successful" basically equates to "Released to Production with no issues requiring an emergency fix". copyrightjoestrazzere

In order to track these release events, I just use a simple spreadsheet. Nothing fancy here, but it allows me to quickly review a year's worth of releases when completing the annual Performance Appraisal forms.

You can access the free template I use here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlX3i44SoVGldERicE5IT1Rxb2NucnY4YkU4aTU2QWc#gid=0

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This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.

From One Expert to Another: Joe Strazzere

From One Expert to Another: Joe Strazzere

Stickyminds.com, the online companion to Better Software magazine, runs a series of articles titled "From One Expert to Another".

These articles use an interview format where one QA/Testing expert questions another. copyrightjoestrazzere

Past editions have interviewed such industry notables as Markus Gärtner, Alan Page, Paul Poutane, Dawn and Shannon Code, Meeta Prakash, Simon Baker, Catherine Powell, and James Bach.

When Joey McAllister of Stickyminds and Alan Page approached me about being the subject, I was quite flattered! And here is the interview:

From One Expert to Another: Joe Strazzere 

http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=ART&ObjectId=17707

Excerpts will also appear in the next printed version of Better Software magazine.

Alan Page works at Microsoft, is a true expert, writes a terrific blog at http://angryweasel.com/blog/, and was the lead author for one of my favorite Testing books, How We Test Software at Microsoft.

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 This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.

Software Testing is NOT "Breaking Things" - Part Two

Breaking Things, or is it Monkey Testing?

For some odd reason, I really don't like it when software testers say "I enjoy breaking things". copyrightjoestrazzere

When you test and find a bug, you haven't broken anything - it was already broken!  If anything, the developer who wrote the code broke it.

see:

http://www.allthingsquality.com/2010/04/software-testing-is-not-breaking-things.html

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This article originally appeared in my blog: All Things Quality

	My name is Joe Strazzere and I'm currently a Director of Quality Assurance. I like to lead, to test, and occasionally to write about leading and testing. Find me at http://AllThingsQuality.com/.