$2b annual revenue. That’s the scale at which companies studied had good reasons for Microservices architecture. And before that? A Monolith architecture evolving to a Modular Monolith, Service-based, and only then to Macroservices, Miniservices, Microservices make the job. Why is that? The solution with minimal efforts must be the preferred…

“Where to start?” That’s one recurring question for organizations looking to start moving from Quality Assurance (QA) to Quality Engineering (QE). Their common trait is to reach limitations of traditional QA practices such as a dedicated team, acceptance criteria definition, or test automation. First steps in Quality Engineering are structuring…

Choosing a repo model is strategic for organizations whose source code is one of their main assets. Google has made structuring choices about the organization of its repositories since 1999. Choices that have proven to be good at the light of their performance. What choices has Google made? For what…

Atlassian is worth $93.25 billion. Without debate, they know how to deliver Quality for their customers and grow a SaaS business. From a Quality Engineering perspective, their software approach is full of learning and actionable practices. Atlassian was a pioneer in evolving the traditional Quality Assurance model to a Quality…

Gitlab is one of the leading platform allowing companies to speed up their software delivery — also known for its remote-first organizational model and the transparency of its internal mechanisms. The organization has grown since 2011 through various fundraising campaigns to provide a self-service development experience powered by open-source and…

“We no longer have Quality Assurance”. This is what Olivier Dennemont and Vincent Dauce achieved at Manomano and OpenClassrooms, two major digital players. The word “QA” and its perception have disappeared from these organizations. Quality Assurance has given way to the organizational model of Quality Assistance — it is about…

Coding can be a nightmare. It’s not that producing code is painful — it’s about the overall experience. Organizations focus on speed to rapidly discover what matters for their users. But this leads to more technology, more problems. Software engineers then lose hours solving configuration, deployment or other integration problems…

A reversed interview by Olivier Dennemont with Antoine Craske, founder of the QE Unit, the Quality Engineering community. This interview lets Antoine share his personal story, background and perspectives on the software industry, and especially on the theme of Quality Engineering, Organizations face tremendous pressure to reinvent their value proposition…

As a system evolves, so does its architecture. The challenges for software teams are to make sure that changes are made in a coordinated and consistent manner to ensure the system stability and evolutivity. Software systems are complex entities composed of multiple subsystems that in turn are composed of multiple…