RST Peer Advisor Marius Francu has created a YouTube playlist of insights from the online RST Explored and RST Applied classes. For those who haven’t yet taken a class, these offer a little taste of some of the lessons that you might learn. For those who have taken the class, they can be helpful reminders of some of the important points.
James Christie Conversation regarding Testing and Audits with James Bach and Michael Bolton
Auditors and testers should resist any attempts to redefine their difficult jobs to try and make them appear easier. Such attempts require a refusal to deal with reality, and a pretence, a delusion, that we can do something worthwhile if we refuse to engage with complex and messy reality.
Testing and auditing are both jobs that it is possible to fake, going through the motions in a plausible manner, while producing nothing of value. That approach is easier in the short tun, but it is deeply short sighted and irresponsible. It trashes the credibility and reputation of practitioners, it short-changes people who expect to receive valuable information, and it leaves both testers and auditors open to being replaced by semi-skilled competition. If you’re doing a lousy job and focusing on cost, there is always someone who can do it cheaper." James Christie from https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/audit-and-agile-part-2/
James Christie links from his blog regarding audits:
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/external-it-auditors-a-theatrical-performance/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/ok-chatgpt-write-an-article-about-the-post-office-horizon-it-scandal-in-exactly-the-same-style-as-software-testing-and-it-audit-expert-james-christie/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/the-mysterious-role-of-external-audit-in-the-post-office-scandal/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/the-myth-of-perfect-software-it-audit-and-governance-aspects-of-the-post-office-scandal/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/external-auditors-arrogant-beyond-their-competence/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/auditors-and-testing-a-rant-justified-by-experience/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/audit-and-agile/
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