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What Is Testing? A Conversation with James Bach and Michael Bolton

Podcasts on Quality Assurance and Testing In this video podcast, Alex Khvastocvich sat down with James Bach and Michael Bolton to answer a deceptively simple question: What is testing? Alex says A lot of people still reduce testing to “finding bugs.” But if you take testing seriously, it’s much bigger than that. We talk about: What testing actually is (and what it isn’t) And a bit about the future of … Read more

Checking is Inside Testing

Read more here: Testing and Checking Refined – by James Bach, Michael Bolton [https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/856] On Testing and Checking Refined – by Michael Bolton [https://developsense.com/blog/2013/03/testing-and-checking-redefined] Testing, Checking, and Changing the Language – by Michael Bolton [https://developsense.com/blog/2009/09/testing-checking-and-changing-language] Professor Harry Collins was mentioned in this video. Please see this link regarding him: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/collinshm Watch more at the Rapid Software Testing YouTube Channel

Podcast: Beyond Checkboxes: Rethinking Software Testing

Join David Carty of Applause, and Michael Bolton, as they discusses the importance of comprehensive testing, the importance of open communication between teams and the effect of AI on software development. https://www.applause.com/resources/podcasts/ep-28-rethinking-software-testinghttps://www.applause.com/resources/podcasts/ep-28-rethinking-software-testing

Testing Voices – interview with Marius Francu

Marius Francu interviews Michael Bolton, co-author of Rapid Software Testing. Testing Voices is a series curated by Marius Francu on the Rapid Software Testing YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@rapid_software_testing Marius Francu is a RST Peer Advisor and Senior Programmer at Siemens. Links from the video: https://developsense.com/blog/2012/09…https://developsense.com/blog/2012/09…https://developsense.com/blog/2012/09… https://developsense.com/blog/categor… https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archiv… https://leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg ‘Improving ratings’: audit in the British University system – Marilyn Strathern http://journals.cambridge.org/abstrac… https://www.econlib.org/econtalk https://kaner.com/pdfs/metrics2004.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cd23… https://www.satisfice.com/download/se… https://www.satisfice.com/download/sb… https://developsense.com/blog/2017/02… https://developsense.com/blog/2019/01… https://developsense.com/blog/2018/06… https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archiv… https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archiv… https://developsense.com/blog/2010/09… https://developsense.com/blog/2010/09… … Read more

Testing The REAL Requirements

Why do we refer to the real requirements for a product as ‘non-functional’ requirements? Here’s a short video in which I talk about that. https://rapid-software-testing.com/ Subscribe: ‪@rapid_software_testing‬

Interview with Testing Minutes

About the episodeTesting seems like an easy task. But how do we test effectively and find really surprising problems? What does it mean to explore and experience the product? How can emotions help with testing? All about Rapid Software Testing (and beyond) Oleksandr Romanov (SET at IOHK) and Artem Grygorenko (QA Coach) talk with guest Michael Bolton! ℹ️ What exactly we talked about: About the guest Michael Bolton   / michael-bolton-08847   📣 … Read more

Testing AI : five obstacles and seven workarounds

‍Recorded for the 3rd Zebrunner Expert Series Webinar we discuss the noise and help you understand what AI truly is and what it means for testing practices. There’s an incredible amount of noise around artificial intelligence these days, but very little reliable signal. AI will bring doom and destruction, or a world where cheerful robots feed us peeled grapes while we lie on the couch. Some say AI is already … Read more

Quality Conversations: Lessons Learned From Michael Bolton on why Terminology Matters (& A Lot More)

Ben Fellows, Quality Conversations Ben Fellows, CEO of Loop Software & Testing, has a YouTube channel in which he posts discussions of topics like Playwright Framework, GitHub Actions, & general Software Testing! Ben Interviewed me for his Quality Conversations channel on April 7, 2023 We explore the evolution of software testing and quality assurance, discussing key topics such as terminology misconceptions, the importance of customer service, the role of senior … Read more

The Developer Who Loves Testing

Deep testing — testing that maximizes the change of finding every elusive bug that matters — is the kind of testing work that engages and motivates serious testers. Developers tend to prefer shallow testing that doesn’t disrupt the developer’s mindset and the developer’s focus on getting the danged product built. (Before anyone gets too upset, note that the shallowness of shallow testing is a feature, not a bug. There’s lots more … Read more

That’s a Rap!

A few years ago, a friend introduced me to a recording of the mind-blowing musical Hamilton (if you haven’t seen or heard it, do yourself a favour and check it out). Our whole family was, for a time, obsessed with it. A few months after that, I was preparing for a talk at Xebia in Amsterdam. I was wondering how I could spice up the talk a little by doing … Read more