Alan Barr

QA Engineer

Columbia, MO Joined on Jan 13, 2018 alan@alanmbarr.com https://www.alanmbarr.com

Education

San Jose State University

Work

QA Engineer at Veterans United Home Loans

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39 posts published

140 comments written

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Alan Barr

Aug 23

Down for me?

#discuss #devto

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Alan Barr

Aug 21

Should you ALWAYS write unit tests?

#discuss #unittest

1 min read

Alan Barr

Aug 19

Surprising Apps in Testing

#discuss #testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Aug 17

How should I start?

#discuss #testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Sep 7 '21

Security and Observability Platforms

#discuss

1 min read

Alan Barr

Jan 13 '21

How do you deal with incidents?

#discuss

1 min read

Alan Barr

Jan 13 '21

When should you build an internal developer platform on Kubernetes?

#discuss #kubernetes

1 min read

Alan Barr

Aug 1 '19

Who even needs Kubernetes?

#discuss #kubernetes

1 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 19 '19

Export ServiceNow Report CSV to Airtable

#spreadsheets #servicenow #data #googlecloud

4 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 1 '19

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy Stats

#testing #software #product

1 min read

Alan Barr

Jun 27 '19

Persuasive Software Testing Course Udemy

#testing #software #product

1 min read

Alan Barr

May 19 '19

Selling Bugs for Software Testers Course

#testing #bugs #selling #persuasion

1 min read

Alan Barr

Mar 4 '19

The Evolution of Software Testing

#testing #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Alan Barr

Jan 30 '19

QA stands for Questioning Assumptions

#discuss #testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 29 '18

Using teaching techniques to create a better workshop

#testing #teaching #learning #software

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 27 '18

My First Online Testing Conference

#testing #conference

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 20 '18

How many programming languages should you support for a business?

#discuss #languages

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 8 '18

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

#testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 8 '18

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

#discuss #testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 7 '18

Should you have a staging server for testing?

#discuss #testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 6 '18

How do you view bugs?

#discuss #testing

1 min read

Alan Barr

Nov 5 '18

How much miscommunication comes from assumptions?

#discuss

1 min read

Alan Barr

Sep 28 '18

Scraping HTML with PHP Node and Puppeteer

#softwaredevelopment #howto #php #scrape

2 min read

Alan Barr

Aug 21 '18

Utilizing a Rubric to share expectations of the QA Engineer Role

#softwaredevelopment #qa #transparency #testing

6 min read

Alan Barr

Aug 20 '18

Azure Data Lake Custom Extractor

#data #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Alan Barr

Aug 3 '18

The single most powerful action to make better choices and software

#softwaredevelopment #qa

2 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 28 '18

Picking a cloud database?

#help #discuss

1 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 23 '18

Attending Hack MidWest Hackathon with Veterans United Home Loans

#softwaredevelopment #hackathon #apis

3 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 19 '18

Creating a Plugin for Netflix Security Monkey

#softwaredevelopment #howto #python #opensource

4 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 17 '18

Learning How To Learn

#softwaredevelopment #careerdevelopment #growth

4 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 6 '18

Agile Testing Days Conference

#testing #softwaretesting #conference #qa

4 min read

Alan Barr

May 31 '18

What's your testing strategy?

#discuss

1 min read

Alan Barr

May 14 '18

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

#discuss

1 min read

Alan Barr

Mar 16 '18

How does QA add value in a distributed system world?

#discuss

1 min read

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

4 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 25 '18

What does a Software Quality Engineer Do Exactly?

#testing #softwaredevelopment #agile

3 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 20 '18

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

#teaching #testing #speaking

2 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 26 '18

Visualizing Quality Attributes with Neo4J and VisJS

#howto

7 min read

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