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Erik Petersen

Erik Petersen
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Erik Petersen is a consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. He's helped build software systems across applications, telecommunications, and infrastructure for more than twenty years, mostly with a quality and test focus. He's unwittingly become an encyclopedia of software and test process & management, strategy, automation, and tools. Contact him at [email protected] or erik_petersen on twitter.

Company
Emprove
Job Function
Other
Industry
Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit
Interests
Configuration Management
Requirements
Software Testing
Country
Australia
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Erik Petersen

Erik Petersen is a consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. Erik has helped build software systems across applications, telecommunications, and infrastructure for more than twenty years. He's unwittingly become an encyclopedia of software and test process and management, strategy, automation, and tools. Contact him at [email protected].

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Close Encounters: How Face-to-Face Communication Decreases Software DefectsErik Petersen explains that face-to-face communications is the best method to prevent software defects. Bringing things out of the shadows into active discussion can raise the level of quality (particularly on large or distributed teams), without a bug report in sight.
The Wisdom of Crowds

The "wisdom of crowds," or crowdsourced testing, can be a powerful tool if harnessed correctly. It also can backfire when tweaking user-facing functionality in a live environment, as a couple of big-name companies discovered. Tread carefully!