QA Toolbox App

Problem: Identify the source of a test management app's crashes.

Solution: Discovered the same app was being used for multiple purposes. Wrote performance tests for all the different web service requests that could be executed individually or simultaneously in proportions mimicking real-life usage.

Marketing Program Management App

Problem: Pinpoint where performance was suffering most in an app that had a long end-to-end process and strict security roles.

Solution: Decided against using existing records due to the large number of specific pre-conditions for most of the scenarios. Wrote the tests to create new records on each run. Wrote RegEx patterns to handle security tokens and do the heavy lifting for record creation, as well as logic to create test records that satisfied data validation requirements.

Problem: Provide a means of communication that could be easily indexed and archived in-house, be secured, and be more convenient than email.

Solution: Configured an InspIRCd server that authenticated against an LDAP user directory, restricted access by channel, and logged all communication in a format digestable by SOLR.

Problem: Our new-hire training process was not comprehensive or uniform, leading to gaps in knowledge.

Solution: Organized the haphazard existing material into online courses that covered the key points, walked learners through examples, allowed them to self-test, and generally provided enough information for them to become self-sufficient at digging deeper when needing to apply the concepts to real-world tasks.

v2.0:

Problem: Emulate a real Agile stand-up where updates are given by teams

Solution: Added filtering by tags in story titles to only return the stories for a single project at a time.

v1.0:

Problem: Teaching ~2 dozen people about reporting in an Agile stand-up using a slow ALM.

Solution: Used the ALM's web APIs to make a JavaScript app to pull the relevant user stories and tasks more quickly.