Testing Peers
Testing Peers is a growing community of ~60 peers in testing, software quality, agility, test leadership, engineering management, and broader software development. We’re united by a shared goal: to drive quality in everything we do within our workplaces and beyond. Through collaboration, accountability, and mutual support, we strive to elevate one another both professionally and personally.
The Testing Peers podcast is now expanding beyond its original four hosts, David Maynard, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford and Simon Prior, striving to represent the voices of a diverse and thriving community. Our inaugural in-person conference, PeersCon, launched in Nottingham in March 2024 and will return in March 2025, further solidifying Testing Peers as a not-for-profit, by testers, for testers initiative.
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Single Points of Failure
Welcome to another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.
This time, Jesper Ottosen joins Russell, David and Chris as we discuss single points of failure.
As ever, we begin with our first email handles - as it turns out ours weren't so embarrassing and have persisted, but at least we break the ice!
Diving into the main topic, the group quickly talk about the single points of failure as people.
"what if they go on holiday?" " what if so and so wins the lottery?" and so on.
Are there robust handover processes in place?
Russell then moves the thinking to systems and processes that affect. Thinking about HR or payment systems.
The Peers discuss what mitigation looks like, continuous processes iterating as we go along, as well as validating these systems - think fire and safety drills.
We talk also about business continuity and disaster recovery.
How do you identify these in your workplace? How do you prepare?
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