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 testing vs. checking at the Conference on Free Testing Tools, sponsored by the Norwegian Computer Society, in Trondheim, Norway. read more…
I gave an interactive talk, "Why Is Testing Taking So Long" at the Markham meeting for TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality. read more…
The 2010 Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, in Melbourne, Florida. This year the subject was what to teach programmers about how to test at the implementation level. read more…
Exploring Testing (and) Leadership, the opening plenary presentation at STC 2009, a conference sponsored by the Edista Testing Institute and QAI Worldwide in Bangalore, India. read more…
TesTrek, a QAI-produced conference right here in Toronto. I participated in the Managers' Workshop on Monday. This included two impromptu talks Test Process in 20 Minutes and Automation in 20 Minutes. I also presented Two Futures of Software Testing on Wednesday. read more…
At the Software Test and Performance Conference, Boston, MA, a keynote address, Lessons Testers Can Learn from Astronauts. In addition, three track talks: Noticing, A Rapid Introduction To Rapid Software Testing, and Two Futures of Software Testing. read more…
Three sessions at STAR West, Anaheim, CA, October 5-9: Tester's Clinic: Dealing with Tough Questions and Testing Myths; Using the Secrets of Improv to Improve Your Testing; and The Skill of Factoring: Identifying What to Test. I also participated in a panel discussion hosted by Ross Collard, with James Bach, more … read more…
A re-presentation of my talk on noticing skills at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association. That's skills of noticing, rather than how to notice particular skills, which is a somewhat different topic. read more…
An online Webinar on exploratory approaches in Agile projects, with Chad Wathington from ThoughtWorks. My slides for the Webinar are are here. read more…
Working with a local client to present Rapid Software Testing and four sessions of follow-up work, in Toronto, starting August 31 and continuing through the fall. read more…
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