{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Vernon Richard Show","title":"Everyone's doing testing now! ...Yay?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4413,"description":"Rich reckons testers and QEs are the best positioned engineers of the next few years. Vern's question is whether a market that knows exactly what it wants also knows what it needs. Tell us which of us you think is closer, and why. If you violently agree or violently disagree, definitely tell us.\n\nQuestions, comments, concerns, corrections, all of it is welcome, and the more of you who share what is actually happening where you work, the better a picture the rest of us get.\n\nDrop a comment on the post, drop a comment on the video, or come and find us on LinkedIn. And if you got something out of this one, like it, subscribe, and send it to the person you were arguing with about this last week.\n\nLinks to stuff we mentioned during the pod:\n03:34 and 11:33 - Rich's LinkedIn post, the one this whole episode is built onRich's LinkedIn\nRich's website\n26:09 - Vern's newsletter, Yeah, But Does It Work?\n30:02 and 37:52 - Steven DevonportSteve's comment on the post, and his follow up question about whether visibility and transparency are the currencies we should be spending\n35:17 - Exploratory data analysis\n40:28 - Huib Schoots\n40:46 - Keith KlainKeith's blog, Quality Remarks\n43:21 - Oracles and Evals\n46:59 - If you’re wondering the term “The Fat Controller” comes from, here’s the Wikipedia entry for Sir Topham Hatt\n49:51 - Rashik PrasadRashik's comment about wearing more hats\n50:58 - ELT stands for Executive Leadership Team aka The C-Suite. SLT is the Senior Leadership Team, the layer below\n55:26 - Jason SmithJason's comment about responsibility being distributed while accountability is not\n58:10 - The episode where we talked about quality coaches and specialists being distributed across teams\n1:00:48 - James Thomas, friend of the podJames's blog\n1:04:23 - Episode 34, 6 AI Tool Ideas That Will Transform How You Test, where tool idea #1 is the LLM that reads your tickets for you\n1:09:27 - The jagged frontierHelen Toner’s article Taking Jaggedness Seriously where I first...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UFGkkh_jsZubLbpE6txGLPU3-7iIlh6gJ0JsseFDEm0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iM2Zk/NGQ3NDk4NmVkNjA5/OGJmMzA0ODQxMWIy/N2ExOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}