The market demands that high-quality software is released at an increasing pace, yet resources remain fixed. How can organizations expand and improve testing under these conditions and help prevent costly and embarrassing bugs in production software? Why not invite internal staff to test-drive preproduction software? Structured testing events engage everyone across the company—sales, legal, day care workers, front desk receptionists—to exercise emerging software and give feedback directly to the development team. The results are incredibly valuable feedback for the development...
Lynneth Lohse
SAS Institute
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Lynneth is a project manager at heart and by profession, and one of the lead coordinators for the SAS BetaLabs. She has led software development teams and customer implementations for nearly 30 years, working in every capacity from entry-level data analyst to Chief Operating Officer. As a member of the SAS Software Quality Engineering team, Lynneth advances SAS’ quality culture by facilitating development team retrospectives, promoting quality standards and education, and through primary authorship of the SAS Quality Imperative. BetaLabs are her favorite event because the energy and cross-communication help drive genuine improvements in software quality.