UPCOMING EVENTS
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Rapid Software Testing Focused: Automation “Test Automation” is a hot topic. If you are in the testing field, then you are probably being pressured to automate your work. But how should you go about it? Only certain specific aspects of testing can be automated, so which aspects should you focus … read more…
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Bright Future or Dark Age: Why Testers Matter Technology can reduce work, make people’s lives easier, and eliminate human error. Or it can disempower us, mislead us, and destroy our data. Which is it? How will things go? We may have our hopes and fears for the products we build, … read more…
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“We shape our tools; thereafter, our tools shape us.” —Marshall McLuhan At the time this description is being written, there’s heated controversy over using AI in testing. Some people enthusiastically promote Large Language Models for developing test ideas, creating test strategy documents, or generating test data, and claim that these … read more…
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We build products and develop services to solve problems for people. As we do so, we must deal with at least two kinds of risk. One is that the solution doesn’t solve the problem at hand. Another is that the solution introduces new problems of its own. In both cases, … read more…
RECENT EVENTS
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May 15, 2025 - May 16, 2025Utrecht, NetherlandsPrivate consulting work with a corporate client in Utrecht, Netherlands. read more…
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May 13, 2025Utrecht, NetherlandsSopra Steria hosts Auto|Q’s event The Best in Test. It's an evening of presentations, chat, and drinks with Michael Bolton, Lina Zubyte, Bas Dijkstra, and Kitty van Leeuwen. The event takes place at Sopra Steria HQ NL, Ringwade 1, Nieuwegein. Michael Bolton will open the event with a keynote titled more … read more…
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May 10, 2025 - May 12, 2025Utrecht, NetherlandsA semi-private Rapid Software Testing Explored class for a corporate client in Utrecht, Netherland. Semi-private? Yes; the class is mostly full, but the client is recruiting people from other companies to fill a few of the seats in the room. Please contact Michael for details if you're in the region, more … read more…
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Mar 31, 2025Iasi, RomaniaWhy do we test? Why do we automate aspects of testing work? We do both to fulfill the fundamental mission of testing: helping the business to keep value high, cost low, and trouble to a minimum by finding problems quickly — before it’s too late. Rapid Software Testing Focused: Automation more … read more…
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Mar 24, 2025 - Mar 28, 2025Bucharest, RomaniaA private Rapid Software Testing class, presentations, and consulting in-house for a corporate client in Bucharesti, Romania. read more…
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Mar 12, 2025Christchurch, New Zealandat the EPIC Innovation Centre, 17h30 The Web is abuzz with talk about “automated testing” and “test automation”. Automation comes with a tasty and digestible story: eliminate “manual testing”, and replace messy, complex humanity with reliable, fast, efficient robots! Yet there are many secrets hidden between the lines of the more … read more…
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Mar 10, 2025 - Mar 12, 2025Christchurch, New ZealandWhy do we test? We test to fulfill the fundamental mission of testing: helping the business to keep value high, cost low, and trouble to a minimum by finding problems quickly — before it's too late. Rapid Software Testing returns to Christchurch as Potentia and Resourcefully organize a three-day live presentation of more … read more…
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Feb 27, 2025Wellington, New ZealandPotentia, in partnership with Resourcefully, are proud to present an event you won't want to miss! Get Tickets It's the topic that's on everyone's lips... AI... We're all aware by now, that AI is transforming the world around us at an unprecedented speed and that of course, includes the world of testing. AI and automation are more … read more…
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Feb 24, 2025 - Feb 26, 2025Wellington, New ZealandWhy do we test? Why do we automate aspects of testing work? We do both to fulfill the fundamental mission of testing: helping the business to keep value high, cost low, and trouble to a minimum by finding problems quickly — before it's too late. Rapid Software Testing returns to more … read more…
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Feb 17, 2025 - Feb 19, 2025Auckland, New ZealandWhy do we test? Why do we automate aspects of testing work? We do both to fulfill the fundamental mission of testing: helping the business to keep value high, cost low, and trouble to a minimum by finding problems quickly — before it's too late. Rapid Software Testing returns to more … read more…
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Feb 12, 2025Singapore, SingaporeA live talk for the Singapore Taqelah! Meetup! Don't miss this exciting session—register now before spots fill up! Register here Talk Abstract: What Are We Thinking in the Age of AI? There's an incredible amount of noise around artificial intelligence these days, but very little reliable signal. AI will bring more … read more…
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Nov 27, 2024Toronto, CanadaA live talk for the Toronto chapter of The Test Tribe, titled Quality Engineering? Quality Assurance? Testing? Let's Get Back to Basics. Here's the abstract: Why do we test software? One easy answer is that we test because we're paid to test, but that begs the question. Why would anyone more … read more…
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Oct 14, 2024Portland, United StatesRapid Software Testing Focused: Automation is a full-day workshop about the essence of automation strategy: vision and setting goals that make sense for you and your organization. You can Register at the PNSQC site W10(Full Day): Rapid Software Test Automation Test automation is a hot topic. If you are in more … read more…
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Oct 14, 2024 - Oct 16, 2024Portland, United StatesKeynote: What Are We Thinking — in the Age of AI? In November, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT 3 — a Large Language Model (LLM) — that dazzled and surprised even the people who produced it. The LLM’s impressive output quickly led to magical claims that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would write all of our software, cure cancer, solve climate change, etc... Meanwhile, other claims (some of which new either) suggested that AI posed an existential threat to all humanity, or to testing and development jobs. Only a few people — mostly in the research community, and hardly any in commercial software development — actually tested these claims skeptically and seriously. In this keynote, Michael will challenge us — and himself — to critically assess our relationships with technology and hype — and our own beliefs. read more…
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Oct 7, 2024 - Oct 9, 2024Vilnius, LithuaniaA private Rapid Software Testing Explored class, presentations, and consulting in-house for a corporate client in Vilnius, Lithuania. read more…
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Oct 3, 2024Brașov, RomaniaA keynote talk for the Codecamp_Braşov Conference. Testing AI: Five Obstacles and Seven Workarounds 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 more … read more…
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Oct 2, 2024Brașov, Romania“Test automation” is a hot topic. If you are in the testing field, then you are probably being pressured to automate your work. But how should you go about it? Only certain specific aspects of testing can be automated, so which aspects should you focus on first? There are lots more … read more…
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Sep 30, 2024 - Oct 1, 2024Bucharest, RomaniaAbout Everyone involved in developing a product brings different perspectives to testing it. Developers wrote the code, so they have unique knowledge with which to test that. Testers didn’t write the code, so they are uniquely motivated to learn things about the product so they can test it. Some people more … read more…
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Sep 16, 2024 - Sep 27, 2024Gothenburg, SwedenTraining (Rapid Software Testing Explored), consulting, alumni reviews, and presentations for a corporate client in Gothenburg, Sweden. read more…
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Sep 12, 2024 - Sep 13, 2024Copenhagen, DenmarkRapid Software Testing classes, live and in person, return to Copenhagen, September 9-13, 2024! Organized by Nine in collaboration with Qalibrate, Michael Bolton will present RST Explored and RST Focused: Automation, along with a testing meetup (details to follow). See a video introduction from Nine's Jens Christian Christiansen. Rapid Software more … read more…