Michel Bolton presents Keynote talk: The Rapid Software Testing Guide to What You Meant to Say at the GreaTEST Quality Conference in Zürich Switzerland. read more…
Critical Thinking Skills for Testers Tutorial at the 2023 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference. In this interactive, hands-on and minds-on workshop, Michael Bolton shares specific techniques and heuristics of critical thinking that can help testers deal confidently and thoughtfully with difficult testing situations. read more…
Measurement, Metrics, and Magic Numbers Tutorial at the 2023 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference. In the tutorial, we’ll learn about reliability and validity in measurement and metrics. We’ll analyze some common testing metrics, and learn how to recognize when they’re dangerous, based on smoke and mirrors. read more…
A keynote talk on context-driven testing for Conference for the Association for Software Testing, in Seattle, Washington, USA. I also presented a one-day workshop on Test Framing. read more…
A presentation on Questioning Measurement, for the inaugural Mississauga meeting of TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality. read more…
In Nieuwegein (near Utrecht), Netherlands, I presented a workshop on test framing and a keynote talk, Two Futures of Software Testing, at the TestNet conference. I was also an invited guest at the booth for Immune-IT. Notes for the test framing workshop are here, here, and here. An updated version more … read more…
At the STAR East 2011 conference, I presented a half-day tutorial on Test Framing (slides here, and related papers here and here). I also delivered a workshop called Questioning Measurement; slides for that are here. read more…
Rapid Software Testing, delivered as a three-day public class in Toronto, Ontario. The class was organized by the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality. read more…
A presentation on Test Framing at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association's Targeting Quality conference. You may also wish to refer to my paper on Test Framing, first provided to workshop participants at EuroSTAR 2010. read more…
I gave a keynote address at SAP's Quality Day in Mannheim, Germany. Rapid Software Testing was the subject of the talk, and the presentation slides are here. read more…
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