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 two-hour online coaching presentation for a large corporate client. This was done as a conversation with one of their staff, and seemed very well received. read more…
At CAST (the Conference of the Association for Software Testing) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I was asked at the last minute to do a presentation as a replacement for a presenter who was unable to attend. I did my presentation on Noticing. read more…
The Sixth Toronto Workshop on Software Testing, an invitation-only peer conference which I co-founded with Fiona Charles. This year we were privileged to have attendees from Calgary and England, in addition to our usual complement of people from Ottawa and southwestern Ontario. read more…
A public offering of Rapid Software Testing in Amsterdam, organized by Diaz and Hilterscheid, the publishers of Testing Experience magazine. read more…
Assisted Cem Kaner in a rare live presentation of his Black Box Software Testing class here in Toronto, for TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality. Check out the online courses offered by the Association for Software Testing. read more…
A two-day public class in two parts: A Rapid Introduction To Rapid Software Testing and Critical Thinking for Testers, for the Southwestern Ontario Software Quality Group. read more…
An in-house presentation of Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client in Waterloo. Because of a crowded schedule, we'll be doing the free fourth day later. read more…
An afternoon with the Scottish Testing Group in Edinburgh. I presented Two Futures of Sofware Testing, Six Short Talks About Software Testing, and a new version of Burning Issues of the Day. read more…
The London Tester's Gathering in the basement at the LVPO Bar in Soho, London, UK. I talked about (and heartily recommended) Leviathan and the Air Pump, a history of an epic scientific dispute that reflected the tensions between experiment and philosophy. read more…
A three-day public offering of Rapid Software Testing in London, England, May 11-13. This one is sponsored by Stephen Allott at Electromind. read more…
"I Wouldn't Have Seen It If I Hadn't Believed It: Confirmation Bias in Testing", a track session at the STAR East Conference, Orlando, Florida. read more…
Questioning Best Practices—a half-day tutorial at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association's third annual Targeting Quality Conference. read more…
A three-day public offering of Rapid Software Testing, and a keynote talk on Testing, Checking, and Tools at the Conference on Free Testing Tools, sponsored by the Norwegian Computer Society, in Trondheim, Norway. read more…
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