Software at Scale 53 - Testing Culture with Mike Bland

Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google, and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsMike’s blog was instrumental towards my decision to pick a job in developer productivity/platform engineering. We talk about the Rainbow of Death - the idea of driving cultural change in large engineering organizations - one of the key challenges of platform engineering teams. And we deep dive into the value and common pushbacks against automated testing. Highlights (GPT-3 generated)[0:00 - 0:29] Welcome[0:29 - 0:38] Explanation of Rainbow of Death [0:38 - 0:52] Story of Testing Grouplet at Google[0:52 - 5:52] Benefits of Writing Blogs and Engineering Culture Change [5:52 - 6:48] Impact of Mike's Blog[6:48 - 7:45] Automated Testing at Scale [7:45 - 8:10] "I'm a Snowflake" Mentality [8:10 - 8:59] Instigator Theory and Crossing the Chasm Model [8:59 - 9:55] Discussion of Dependency Injection and Functional Decomposition[9:55 - 16:19] Discussion of Testing and Testable Code [16:19 - 24:30] Impact of Organizational and Cultural Change on Writing Tests [24:30 - 26:04] Instigator Theory [26:04 - 32:47] Strategies for Leaders to Foster and Support Testing [32:47 - 38:50] Role of Leadership in Promoting Testing [38:50 - 43:29] Philosophical Implications of Testing Practices This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.softwareatscale.dev