Wait…what? – Tales from the Testing Dark Side

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. – Ernest Hemingway

I recently gave a talk at the EuroSTAR conference in Gothenburg, Sweden about how I feel you can re-frame the perception of your testing effort in your organisation. A big part of the philosophy underpinning my approach is to be honest, frank and up front about what is, and is not working with yourself first – then address anything that comes after that.

Part of my talk is about how bias and perceptions are formed, and I take several (hopefully humorous)  pokes at the software testing industry to illustrate my point. I feel strongly, that we accept far too much nonsense and unverified claims about software testing, and in order for there to be fundamental change, those narratives that bounce around the echo chamber of testing conferences, vendors and blogs have to stop.

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