Penny Wyatt

Atlassian

With ten years of software industry experience, Penny Wyatt works at Atlassian as the QA team lead for JIRA, an issue tracker used by more than 11,000 organizations worldwide. Penny started her career as a software developer, but after joining Microsoft in Redmond as a developer in test, she discovered that breaking software is much more enjoyable than building it. After a few years of developing testing tools, Penny realized that hiring a small test team to educate developers and prevent bugs is much more efficient than hiring a large test team to find bugs. Penny focuses on white-box testing, security training, and ruining developers' fun.

Speaker Presentations

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 3:45pm

Agile Test & QA

Transform Your Agile Test Process to Ship Fast with High Quality

Until 2009, the Atlassian JIRA team shipped a major release of its software every nine to twelve months. Everything was tested—every story and every bug fix—and everything still contained serious bugs. Story development moved quickly, but after the feature-complete date, several month-long hardening periods were required to make the software actually shippable. Integrating the release into Atlassian’s hosted platform took another three or four months.