The Kitty Hawk Venture by Jeffrey Scheaffer & Aruna Ravichandran & Alex Martins

Author:Jeffrey Scheaffer & Aruna Ravichandran & Alex Martins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781484236611
Publisher: Apress

“Can I come in?” Leigh asked.

“Of course,” said Alicia, “let me just save this . . .” She clicked her mouse and then closed up her laptop. Not out of security concerns, but as a gesture of respect. When you were with Alicia, you always got her full attention. “But then again,” thought Leigh, “there might be some security concerns . . .”

She looked at Leigh. “So, what can I do for you?”

Leigh thought for a moment. “Our new initiative to introduce this new approach to testing has become an even greater imperative, given current developments,” she said cryptically. She paused, looking for any reaction from Alicia. A raise of an eyebrow? A slight smile? A twitch of an eyelid? Nothing. Leigh pressed on. “I have been working with teams from Test, Development, and Ops to identify the problems and bottlenecks that are holding us back from building continuous testing into the entire lifecycle and trying to show them how testing and quality have to be built in from the very start. Your presence at the meetings was very helpful by the way.”

“So, what do you envision next?” Alicia asked.

“Well,” Leigh replied, “you can’t have action without a plan, and you can’t have a good plan without facts. So, we’re building a wiki in order to have an ongoing string of definitions that support continuous testing. It’s early days. It’s still got to have more bones, more delineations. How we do quality in development, in testing pre-, mid- and post-deployment, and ongoing production testing, that sort of thing.”

“And you could have told me all of that in an email,” said Alicia, “as much as I enjoy the visit.”

Leigh pressed further. “I . . . um . . . discovered something the other day that I think might have a significant impact on our efforts, making them a lot more urgent, as it were . . .” Again, she paused for a reaction. Again, nothing. Alicia was a cool customer. “It has to do with being . . . um . . . you know, first in flight?”

“Yes, I’m familiar with that phrase,” she said, a little sardonically, “but I don’t think it would work as a tagline for Renway. I think the state of Ohio uses it. A Wright brothers thing, I believe.”

Leigh still couldn’t tell. Was Alicia dancing around the Kitty Hawk thing, or was Leigh just projecting?

“Actually, it’s North Carolina,” Leigh replied, “and Ohio uses ‘Birthplace of Aviation,’ but there’s a lot of debate going on over who gets the glory of the Wright brothers. It’s all still up in the air, so to speak.”

Leigh realized she was tap dancing here, but she didn’t want to let go of the Kitty Hawk reference. Alicia was so hard to read.

“Anyway . . . I found out . . . I found out . . .” Leigh hesitated.

Alicia looked at her expectantly. Time seemed to slow right down.

She folded! She couldn’t do it. It was confidential information. She had been in an executive meeting room, and she had looked under a covered flipchart page.

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