0245 - Testing, a Quality Mindset with Sushant Singhal

Welcome to Design Talk. Our guest today is Sushant Singhal from Gartner. Sushant works on the Software Development and UX team in the Gartner Technical Professionals Guild (that’s my term for Garnet’s team specialisms). Sushant offers us his take on software testing and the quality mindset you need to bring to digital design and software engineering. There is lots to unpack here and to apply to your own environments. Don’t forget to look through the show-notes for further readings and links. Our hosts for this interview are Erin Nielsen and Vishvam Dave, Masters students at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Welcome to the podcast Sushant. Starting off, could you say a little about your background and interests? · Why can't we have the developers do the testing as well and why should there be a separate role for testers? · Is there a future for manual testing? · Essential skills to move into testing? · Software testing in Agile teams… How that works? · Is there a critical step in the software development process that significantly reduces the likelihood of defects during testing? Any additional questions from the audience? Notes, extra questions, and further reading: Sushant Singhal - Senior Director Analyst on the Software Development and UX team of ‘Gartner for Technical Professionals’ (GTP) - https://www.gartner.com/en/experts/sushant-singhal Selected notes that Sushant has been involved in: How to Create an Effective Software Test Plan - https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/5595259 How to Establish 4 Development and Test Environments for Effective Software Engineering - https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/5469695 Acknowledgements Music Title: Faceplant with UK Garage Artist: Allen Higgins Source: a-Wed23Oct2024 License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Includes samples from Ableton Live by Ableton AG and by KORG Inc. Cover Art Title: Complex collage Artist: Allen Higgins Source: SushantAndClass.pptx License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Podcast License Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast.