Alan Barr

Email

alan@alanmbarr.com
Work

Technical Product Manager at Veterans United Home Loans
Location

Columbia, MO
Education
Joined

Jan 13, 2018

Alan Barr

Aug 1 '19

#discussWho even needs Kubernetes?

#discuss #kubernetes

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Recent Comments

re: What is the most potentially-revolutionary software currently being developed? Jun 21

This software is old hat but i think streamer and especially ...

re: AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud May 26

For enterprises I have seen Azure and AWS playing very nicely...

re: Are you more optimistic or pessimistic for the future of the software development career? May 25

I am optimistic but I think there are some career traps peopl...

re: Why Data APIs are bad for UI Testing Mar 8

Yeah was just referring to the original article writer and ...

re: Why Data APIs are bad for UI Testing Mar 8

With an API it depends on what we are trying to test and wh...

re: Why Data APIs are bad for UI Testing Mar 8

I think it is probably natural to come off negative. Most o...

re: A Testing System and Why it is Wrong Mar 7

The round earth concept is a decent mental model for qualit...

re: Change my mind: tests are overrated Mar 1

I typically look from a business risk lens on whether somet...

Alan Barr

Jul 19 '19

Export ServiceNow Report CSV to Airtable

#spreadsheets #servicenow #data #googlecloud

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Alan Barr

Jul 1 '19

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy Stats

#testing #software #product

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Alan Barr

Jun 27 '19

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy

#testing #software #product

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Alan Barr

May 19 '19

Selling Bugs for Software Testers Course

#testing #bugs #selling #persuasion

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Alan Barr

Mar 4 '19

The Evolution of Software Testing

#testing #softwaredevelopment

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Alan Barr

Jan 30 '19

#discussQA stands for Questioning Assumptions

#testing #discuss

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Alan Barr

Nov 29 '18

Using teaching techniques to create a better workshop

#testing #teaching #learning #software

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Alan Barr

Nov 27 '18

My First Online Testing Conference

#testing #conference

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Alan Barr

Nov 20 '18

#discussHow many programming languages should you support for a business?

#discuss #languages

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Alan Barr

Nov 8 '18

You are not asking these Four Powerful Questions for higher quality software

#testing

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Alan Barr

Nov 8 '18

#discussWhat do you try when you want to find bugs before your customers do?

#discuss #testing

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Alan Barr

Nov 7 '18

#discussShould you have a staging server for testing?

#discuss #testing

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Alan Barr

Nov 6 '18

#discussHow do you view bugs?

#discuss #testing

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Alan Barr

Nov 5 '18

#discussHow much miscommunication comes from assumptions?

#discuss

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Alan Barr

Sep 28 '18

Scraping HTML with PHP Node and Puppeteer

#softwaredevelopment #howto #php #scrape

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Alan Barr

Aug 21 '18

Utilizing a Rubric to share expectations of the QA Engineer Role

#softwaredevelopment #qa #transparency #testing

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Alan Barr

Aug 20 '18

Azure Data Lake Custom Extractor

#data #softwaredevelopment

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Alan Barr

Aug 3 '18

The single most powerful action to make better choices and software

#softwaredevelopment #qa

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Alan Barr

Jul 28 '18

#helpPicking a cloud database?

#help #discuss

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Alan Barr

Jul 23 '18

Attending Hack MidWest Hackathon with Veterans United Home Loans

#softwaredevelopment #hackathon #apis

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Alan Barr

Jul 19 '18

Creating a Plugin for Netflix Security Monkey

#softwaredevelopment #howto #python #opensource

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Alan Barr

Jul 17 '18

Learning How To Learn

#softwaredevelopment #careerdevelopment #growth

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Alan Barr

Jul 6 '18

Agile Testing Days Conference

#testing #softwaretesting #conference #qa

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Alan Barr

May 31 '18

#discussWhat's your testing strategy?

#discuss

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Alan Barr

May 14 '18

#discussHow do you think of RISK when you are working on a new feature?

#discuss

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Alan Barr

Mar 16 '18

#discussHow does QA add value in a distributed system world?

#discuss

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Alan Barr

Feb 24 '18

F# Foundation Mentorship Program

#softwaredevelopment #mentorship #opensource

2 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 31 '18

How does Quality Engineering Relate to DevOps?

#testing #softwaredevelopment #agile #devops

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Alan Barr

Jul 25 '18

What does a Software Quality Engineer Do Exactly?

#testing #softwaredevelopment #agile

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Alan Barr

Jul 20 '18

Teaching Others About What Quality Engineers Do. Teaching Testing to Non-Testers

#teaching #testing #speaking

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Alan Barr

Jul 26 '18

Visualizing Quality Attributes with Neo4J and VisJS

#howto

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Alan Barr

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#discussWho even needs Kubernetes?

Recent Comments

Export ServiceNow Report CSV to Airtable

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy Stats

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy

Selling Bugs for Software Testers Course

The Evolution of Software Testing

#discussQA stands for Questioning Assumptions

Using teaching techniques to create a better workshop

My First Online Testing Conference

#discussHow many programming languages should you support for a business?

You are not asking these Four Powerful Questions for higher quality software

#discussWhat do you try when you want to find bugs before your customers do?

#discussShould you have a staging server for testing?

#discussHow do you view bugs?

#discussHow much miscommunication comes from assumptions?

Scraping HTML with PHP Node and Puppeteer

Utilizing a Rubric to share expectations of the QA Engineer Role

Azure Data Lake Custom Extractor

The single most powerful action to make better choices and software

#helpPicking a cloud database?

Attending Hack MidWest Hackathon with Veterans United Home Loans

Creating a Plugin for Netflix Security Monkey

Learning How To Learn

Agile Testing Days Conference

#discussWhat's your testing strategy?

#discussHow do you think of RISK when you are working on a new feature?

#discussHow does QA add value in a distributed system world?

F# Foundation Mentorship Program

How does Quality Engineering Relate to DevOps?

What does a Software Quality Engineer Do Exactly?

Teaching Others About What Quality Engineers Do. Teaching Testing to Non-Testers

Visualizing Quality Attributes with Neo4J and VisJS

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