Quality Engineering? Quality Assurance? Testing? | In Person Toronto Meetup
Hello Testers,
After the passionate response to one of our past offline events in other cities, we’re here to bring you all together in Toronto!
We’ve brought The Test Tribe 2nd Toronto Meet-up to all of you!
Excited To Know When It’s Happening?
Date: 27th November 2024
Time: 6 PM to 9 PM EST
Venue: Downtown Industrial Chinatown Loft
Session #1: Quality Engineering? Quality Assurance? Testing? Let's Get Back to Basics
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 pay us to test?
Some might say that we test to show that the product works, but that's not too hard; a demonstration can do that, and a demonstration only shows that the product CAN work. Others might be more specific, and say that we test to show that the product produces correct output — but a product can produce correct output and still have terrible problems.
Some people prefer the titles "Quality Assurance" or "Quality Engineering". Despite the phenomenon of title inflation, testers don't assure quality, and we don't engineer quality either. Testing might include output checking (and creating programs to do it), but excellent testing needs far more than that. Testing requires a complex set of skills, investigative activities, and social judgements that complement — not reproduce — the work of programmers. Testing work can be challenging, engaging, fun, and tremendously valuable.
In this talk, Michael Bolton will present this fundamental idea: we test to discover the true status of the product. We do that with a special focus on finding problems and risks about the product that threaten its value to people who matter. That fulfils a unique and valuable business role on the project: finding trouble before it's too late.
About Speaker:
Michael Bolton, Lead Consultant
Michael Bolton is a consulting software tester and testing teacher who helps people to solve testing problems that they didn’t realise they could solve. In 2006, he became co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing (RST), a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly and credibly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Since then, he has flown over a million miles to teach RST in 35 countries on six continents.
Michael has over 30 years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. For over 20 years, he has led DevelopSense, a Toronto-based testing and development consultancy. Prior to that, he was with Quarterdeck Corporation for eight years, during which he managed the company’s flagship products and directed project and testing teams both in-house and around the world
Apart From Everything Above, We Got Many More Remarkable Opportunities:
To meet like-minded people
Conversations with other testers
Discussion on impressive testing tools & topics
Talking about the challenges facing as a testers
Quick chat opportunity, where one can speak out about testing for 100 seconds
Chat over some quick bites with a cup of coffee/tea.
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