“Exploratory Test Automation” (ETA) may sound strange or even self-contradictory, but the idea is not new. In fact, if you have ever used a fuzzer or a ‘monkey’ program to type in random strings looking for crashes in an application, you were using a type of exploratory test automation. In the past 20 years, ETA...
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March 2021 Virtual QASIG: Agile Remote Leadership and QA
Agile Remote Leadership and Quality Assurance Presented by Dilruba Malik, SQA Manager, Palo Alto Networks Dilruba’s Presentation slides During this global pandemic, each of us has faced a lot of new learning, some of which we had never considered before. Many of us are now required to work from home, which is a whole new challenge....
January 2021 Virtual QASIG: Discussions Testers Should No Longer Be Having with Mike Lyles
November 2020 Virtual QASIG – Teaching Testing To Programmers
Teaching Testing To Programmers. What Sticks, And What Slides Off? A Journey From Teflon To Velcro. Presented by Rob Sabourin and Monica Wodzislawski Fresh from PNSQC in Portland, Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com and McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and Mónica Wodzislawski, Centro Ensayos de Software (Software Testing Center), Uruguay and Universidad del la Republica (University of the...
September 2020 QASIG Virtual Recap
The Changing Role of Testing in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing See the slides/resources here. How do you test a system that answers a question for which no previous answer exists? The world of non-deterministic computing poses significant challenges to traditional software testing. This talk examines the role of testing and quality in...
July 2020 QASIG Virtual Recap – Mike Lyles, Lightning Talk
The Forensics of Testing – Mike Lyles In this presentation, we will put the role of the tester under the microscope and discuss how testers can learn from the research and work that criminal investigators do today, how to use hard facts, as well as hidden facts, to determine a trustworthy conclusion. In testing, we...