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by scriptrockalan 4856 days ago
Hey, nice to see someone cares enough to post and comment on my blog.

BryantD, if you work in a place where testers review Puppet manifests that's awesome. It's fair to say I was generalising. I believe that the tools should be doing more to encourage it.
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BryantD 4856 days ago
That's fair!

In my talk at the last GDC Online, I called for technical operations groups to engage QA in testing their tools: puppet manifests, cobbler installations, whatever. If I thought everyone was doing it I would have left that slide out.

I am not currently in a position which has me evaluating tools, but you are now on my list of tools to look at. I will admit it'd be nice to be able to give testers friendlier interfaces.

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sciurus 4856 days ago
"I believe that the tools should be doing more to encourage it."

Can you provide an example of what that means? E.G. What should Jenkins be doing differently to encourage sysadmins to use it? What should Puppet be doing differently to encourage developers to use it?

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scriptrockalan 4856 days ago
What we want to see in "DevOps" tools is collaboration and visibility baked in. A tester in an Enterprise is unlikely to start writing Puppet manifests. If they could contribute notes and requirements to one though, perhaps even in a format that could be converted into a manifests then that would be a very powerful thing.
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