Michael Bolton on the Testing Mindset
Engineering Culture by InfoQ
English - May 20, 2019 20:09 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Bolton about the current and future state of testing.
Why listen to this podcast:
• Testing is about evaluating products by learning about them through exploration and experimentation
• These is confusion about the difference between testing a small bit of functionality and the complexity that arises when many of these small bits of software are combined into systems
• The common approach of using unit tests and checking the output of transactions they are not looking for trouble, they are looking to demonstrate that everything is OK, and this is a dangerous perspective
• The need for testing of machine learning so that it reflects what we aspire to be, rather than what we are, which requires testers to become ethicists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and artists
• The evolution of testing is not about changes in tools and technologies, it is about applying the tester mindset to the new types of systems being tested today
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