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Seth Eliot

Microsoft

Senior Test Manager



Seth Eliot is Senior Knowledge Engineer for Microsoft Test Excellence focusing on driving best practices for services and cloud development/testing across the company. He previously was Senior Test Manager, most recently for the team solving exabyte storage and data processing challenges for Bing, and before that enabling developers to innovate by testing new ideas quickly with users “in production” with the Microsoft Experimentation Platform (http://exp-platform.com). Testing in Production (TiP), software processes, cloud computing, and other topics are ruminated upon at Seth's blog at http://bit.ly/seth_qa and on Twitter (@setheliot). Prior to Microsoft, Seth applied his experience at delivering high quality software services at Amazon.com where he led the Digital QA team to release Amazon MP3 download, Amazon Instant Video Streaming, and Kindle Services.

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Session 503: A to Z Testing in Production: TiP Methodologies, Techniques, and Examples

Friday March 16th 7am 2 0 Comments Performance Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
STPCon Spring 2012 - New Orleans - Session Recorded on Wednesday, 9:15am - 10:30am - Seth Eliot

Quality in the Cloud: The new Role of TestOps

Tuesday March 13th 8am 4 0 Comments Test and QA Cloud Software Test Professionals Conference
The term "TestOps" is a new one, but it encapsulates a new way of thinking about how we test and ensure quality of cloud services. It is a portmanteau of "Test" and "Ops", so let's start with "Test", a term I expect this readership to know all about but will briefly define here for clarity. When we test we apply a series of actions on the system and check for respective expected results, so as to assess the soundness of the system for use by our customers -- or looked at the other way, the risk of exposing the system to end users.
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TWiST #85 - Testing in Production, Part I

Friday March 2nd 4am 6 5 Comments podcast
There's a difference between "inflicting code upon your unsuspecting customers" and having a well designed and well functioning deployment strategy that includes solid testing and focused deployment strategies. L.B. Dankar and Seth Eliot join us to explain the difference.
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Ditch the Requirements - Focus on the Customer Instead

Thursday February 10th 2011 10am 6 3 Comments Best Practices End to End Development Project Management Quality Assurance Requirements Agile Software Testing Software Test Professionals Conference
Quality can be defined as meeting the customers' needs. Juran posted this definition in 1988, defining quality as "fitness for use". Testers like this definition as it gives them a "north star" to guide their actions and it reinforces a role that most testers relish, that of customer advocate. However Crosby's older definition of quality as "conformance to requirements" still holds strong sway, and many test processes are guided by test cases correlated directly to requirements.
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