RST Peer Advisor Marius Francu has created a YouTube playlist of insights from the online RST Explored and RST Applied classes. For those who haven’t yet taken a class, these offer a little taste of some of the lessons that you might learn. For those who have taken the class, they can be helpful reminders of some of the important points.
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Live Testopsy with Jon and James Bach
Live Testopsy with Jon and James Bach
Thinking Out of the Bachs #1
In this video we analyzed several memes/quips and re-worked them. Our ...
In this video we analyzed several memes/quips and re-worked them.
Our goal is to practice systematic critical thinking. We are partially successful.
Question Hospital: Testing and AI #1
Question Hospital is an event where we take a question from a client, ...
Question Hospital is an event where we take a question from a client, colleague, or student, reframe it to its best form, and then try to answer it.
This is the ...question we tackled:
"My boss frequently encourages us to use AI and I get more and more angry and demotivated by this. He basically says "Use more AI" without any details, rejects criticism (paraphrased: "Sure, the pollution environment is a problem, but we need to go with the hype. Our customers ask for it." )
While a test coworker agrees with me on the criticism he acts like my boss asks, trying out AI at every possibility. He even doesn't try to understand what the actual problem is, but just tries to throw AI at it. Which makes me mad.
One dev coworker is totally into agentic coding and I and other devs perceive his performance as dev as very poor. He doesn't try to understand context and the bigger picture. We have the impression he just asks to get input for his prompts. I cannot stand this person and distrust most of their output development wise as much as communication wise. From what I heard this AI dev is even paid more than me and gets more appreciation by our boss.
I have one also very critical dev coworker who is deep into AI/LLM and luckily shares my criticism. He also sees the limits problems of agentic coding. This makes me happy."Show More
Responding to a Critique of Taking Testing Seriously
Michael Bolton and James Bach respond to Oleksandr Bolzhelarskyi. ...
Michael Bolton - Why Take RST Classes?
"Now that there's a book — Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid ...
How to Report AI-Assisted Work
James and Michael discuss their system for reporting on the status of ...
James and Michael discuss their system for reporting on the status of work they have done with the help of AI.
There are four levels:
0. Slop
1. Plausible
2. Provisional
3. Validated
Technical Work is All About Learning - Conversations on Taking Testing Seriously
In this video, James Bach and Karen N. Johnson are discussing about ...
The Book is Out
So strange when an idea becomes a real thing.
So strange when an idea becomes a real thing.
What is Normal? - Conversations on Taking Testing Seriously
In this video, James Bach and Karen N. Johnson read from our soon to ...
On Magic Boxes and Magic - Conversations on Taking Testing Seriously
In this video, James Bach and Michael Bolton read from our soon to be ...
James Christie Conversation regarding Testing and Audits with James Bach and Michael Bolton
"Following the happy path is a foreign concept to good, experienced ...
"Following the happy path is a foreign concept to good, experienced auditors. Their path is a narrow one. They strive to warn of the unseen dangers lurking all around while ...also providing constructive input, all the time maintaining sufficient independence so that they can comment dispassionately and constructively on what they see. As I’ve said, it’s not easy.
Auditors and testers should resist any attempts to redefine their difficult jobs to try and make them appear easier. Such attempts require a refusal to deal with reality, and a pretence, a delusion, that we can do something worthwhile if we refuse to engage with complex and messy reality.
Testing and auditing are both jobs that it is possible to fake, going through the motions in a plausible manner, while producing nothing of value. That approach is easier in the short tun, but it is deeply short sighted and irresponsible. It trashes the credibility and reputation of practitioners, it short-changes people who expect to receive valuable information, and it leaves both testers and auditors open to being replaced by semi-skilled competition. If you’re doing a lousy job and focusing on cost, there is always someone who can do it cheaper." James Christie from https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/audit-and-agile-part-2/
James Christie links from his blog regarding audits:
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2024/12/27/external-it-auditors-a-theatrical-performance/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/ok-chatgpt-write-an-article-about-the-post-office-horizon-it-scandal-in-exactly-the-same-style-as-software-testing-and-it-audit-expert-james-christie/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2023/02/14/the-mysterious-role-of-external-audit-in-the-post-office-scandal/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/the-myth-of-perfect-software-it-audit-and-governance-aspects-of-the-post-office-scandal/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/external-auditors-arrogant-beyond-their-competence/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/auditors-and-testing-a-rant-justified-by-experience/
- https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/audit-and-agile/
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What Are We Thinking in the Age of AI? And are we still thinking like testers? - Michael Bolton
It’s the topic that’s on everyone’s lips… AI… We’re all aware by now, ...
