NoahCode Story episode
S4 Bonus: Fixing the Brittle Test Suite: The DevOps Playbook for Smarter continuous Integration with ProdPerfect’s Erik Fogg
May 6, 2021 · Season 4 · 43 min
Changing the QA Landscape
Erik Fogg attended MIT, but failed his intro to computer science classes. It was at that point, that he punted over to mechanical engineering. So as you could guess, Erik is not the tech guy - but, he does know enough to be dangerous. He loves to work with his hands, and has a professional history in solving old problems in new ways.
Speaking of working with his hands, he likes to create comic con gear (at the time of the recording he had a captain America shield made out of an old satellite in his office). He's also a huge comic book and sports card collector, and he actually mentors several startups involved in pricing & liquidity around collectibles. Outside of that, he hosts a podcast around the topic of politics, polarization, and tribalism.
Early 2018, Erik's co-founder started working through the traditional problems of QA testing. After getting fed up with it, he decided that he just needed to build his own solution, and needed someone to help him turn it into a business. Erik joined the team, and has been changing the QA testing landscape ever since.
This is the creation story of ProdPerfect.
Sponsors.
Acton Children's Business Fair
Links
Website: https://prodperfect.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikfogg/Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
Amazing tools we use:
This podcast is hosted on RedCircle, a FREE platform for podcasts and brands to scale their message. Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast.Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain, sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREEIf you want an amazing publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people – use Transistor.fmCredits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.
Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
More episodes
Keep listening
Topics
Explore related conversations
Startup engineering team structure that actually ships
How to structure a startup engineering team: the models that work at 5, 15 and 40 engineers, how to split teams, and the org mistakes that quietly slow delivery.
How to choose a tech stack for a startup
A decision framework for choosing a startup tech stack: what actually matters, which choices are reversible, and how to avoid the rewrite that eats your Series A.
Build vs buy: a decision framework for technical leaders
When to build software in-house and when to buy it: a build vs buy framework covering total cost of ownership, differentiation, switching costs and vendor risk.