We were excited to welcome Caleb Crandall to join our host Jon Bach for a 1 on 1 podcast-style interview.
Caleb Crandall is a Developer who decided to move into Testing and found it not to be rote and boring, but a skilled profession of craftsmanship and critical thinking. He makes a case for specialists in the face of so many groups that push for generalist developers who do everything, as well as the similar groups that attempt to relegate testers to solely a coaching role.
Key Takeaways:
• How to hate software testing enough to start loving it
• Ways to approach testing other than painful highly detailed test cases – squeezing all of the detail out of test execution
• Applying a development / programming mindset to test design and execution
About our guest: Caleb is a Software Engineer in Test at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences. He earned his group’s “Certified Biomek Engineer” badge of honor while still an intern (i.e. causing an epic hardware crash) and has been hooked on testing ever since. Caleb has been helping develop and test medical and research devices for over 12 years, and is now focused on improving and streamlining testing efforts at every stage of the design, development, and release process. He enjoys getting his hands dirty running hardware out in the development lab, and still keeps a pile of broken hardware “trophies” on his desk.
About our host: Jon has more than two decades of software quality project experience as a tester, test manager, test consultant, and test director, which he has used to help companies make sure its marketing efforts are thoughtful and relevant. He has an energetic and practical style, and he is known to many as “Jon the Bug Hunter.” Jon can be reached at jbtestpilot@hotmail.com.
