Who? What? Why?

In the world of Hi-Tech and software engineering, we are all trying to get ahead, and put out the best possible product.  On the path to success, we stumble across obstacles and various implements that cause us to slow down and prevent our product from reaching greatness.  The great migration of software engineering to move from waterfall life-cycles to agile methodologies was a concerted effort to break down these barriers and improve our release management into faster releases, to improve our overall output - more and faster - and improve overall quality.  However, in the move to produce better and faster, much of our product fell in terms of quality.  The general importance to test and produce at the highest possible quality all too often takes a back seat to "get the product out" and "start making revenue".  

During this time period that we as an overall contingency of software and hardware engineering companies moved into agile development, the internet produced a magical new framework - high speed internet access available worldwide, smart phones and cloud capabilities.  As a child watching TV, I remember the now famous slogan of the UPS: "Moving at the speed of business."  When I was younger I always wondered what the speed of business was.  Was it measured in miles per hour?  How fast does it cross the globe?

Well, whatever metric they used in the eighties and nineties, its so much faster now.  We need to be able to create instantaneous business.  Software engineering is quickly developing methods for monthly small releases and configurable management for large scaled systems.  

What all these changes add up to is a logistical and mathematical problem for maintaining quality products.  Many of the core testing blogs and published works discuss how to keep quality up with the speed of changing cultures and company life-cycles.

This blog is devoted to the concept that we can do better.  We can make any product into pure gold, the only question is "How?".  Here we will answer this question in many different forms and possibilities.  Some posts will be for large companies, others for small to medium size.  Some answers may be relevant to a certain style of development, while others may just discuss issues without solutions.  But whichever the post touches upon, the goal will remain the same always - Lets make our products better.  Lets make them gold.