Author Archives: rob.fagen

Helping DC Area Agile Testers Help Themselves

By rob.fagen in O-Testing | March 23, 2011
The DC Agile Software Testing MeetUp group met for the first time yesterday. Thanks to everyone that attended for contributing to a very positive experience. We’re looking for “Better Ways To Make Better Software”. Agile software development is a great way to make good software that satisfies real needs and creates real value to those [...]

Picking up your Mac OS environment in RubyMine

By rob.fagen in O-Testing, Tools | September 7, 2010
Many of us are using RubyMine on MacOS to build our Cucumber based tests, and have had issues with picking up environment variables needed for working with some of our other internal utilities. Turns out that this is because applications launched from anywhere other than the command line don’t run through the same environment initialization [...]

Just What is A Software Engineer in Test?

By rob.fagen in Culture, O-Testing, Tools | August 26, 2010
OPOWER recently updated the job titles for our QA engineers to more properly reflect the work that we do. We still love owning the responsibility for pointing out when our product hasn’t turned out the best it can, and we have all held and loved “QA” titles at many points in our careers. So why [...]