Rapid Software Testing is for people who take testing seriously.
Serious testers learn about the product through experiencing, exploring, and experimenting, quickly and expertly. They help development by finding trouble before it’s too late, and they help the business by revealing risk that could lead to unpleasant and expensive surprises.
The tester is at the heart of testing. That’s what Rapid Software Testing approach (RST) is all about.
How do you achieve great testing?
- How do you get yourself—or your people—excited about testing?
- How do you sustain that excitement?
- How do you use that energy to help people become better testers?
- How do you foster respect for the testing process?
- How do you cultivate the kind of testing that is worthy of respect?
Rapid Software Testing answers these questions.
RST is a way of doing, teaching, and talking about testing that gives responsible people the freedom and the tools to do testing well. Whether you are a tester, a developer, a manager, or anyone else for whom testing matters, RST gives you a lot to love about testing.
If you want to adopt RST for yourself, you don’t need anyone’s permission or coordination. That’s a personal matter.
But if you want a team or a whole company to adopt RST, that’s going to require patient, persistent leadership.
We provide training, consulting, and the Rapid Software Testing Managed class for test managers, development managers, and project managers who want to learn how to foster that leadership.
Why do we test?
We test to develop a comprehensive understanding of the product and the risks around it. We test to find problems that threaten the value of the product, or that threaten the on-time, successful completion of any kind of development work. We test to help the business, managers, and developers decide whether the product they’ve got is the product they want.
Above all, we test because it is the responsible thing to do. We have a duty of care toward our teams, our organizations, our customers, and society itself. Releasing poorly tested software would be a breach of that duty.
The Rapid Software Testing curriculum steadily evolves to meet the needs of people who develop, and test software products in the ever evolving contextual landscape of software development.
Long Form Classes
Our immersive foundational courses, presented over three or four days, give participants the time and focus they need to understand and develop skills by taking the RST approach to responsible testing.
Focused Classes
Shorter focused classes present RST perspectives on important topics, including AI, automation, risk, critical thinking, analysis, coaching and management. These are designed for people or organizations for whom time is at a premium.
How We Teach Our Classes
RST instructors all have at least 20 years of experience in practice, research, teaching, and consulting about testing and software development. We do not make appeals to authority; we speak from our experiences, and we appeal to your experience and intelligence. You control what you think and do, so we encourage you to question and challenge us.
“Adopting RST was the best move I made when establishing a testing practice at my organization just over two years ago. Recently my team needed to collaborate with a client’s test team (who employs factory-style testing). This was a great opportunity to discuss RST with them and establish a solid foothold on why it works for us — and why we’ll continue to use it on our upcoming product build with them. I’m positive they’ll see the value by the end of our endeavour together — and maybe they will take back some changes to consider in their own processes.
For anyone new to the RST space, the ability to speak succinctly and confidently about testing and RST is important. Along with reading and practice, attending the RST Coached and RST Managed courses was critical in my ability to do that with these clients.”
—Ashley Palmer, Quality Manager, Modea
