In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lanette Creamer about the need for technical skills by testers and the importance of exploratory testing.
Why listen to this podcast:
• Despite the importance and value it provides, software testing is not a particularly respected profession
• Testers with development skills and developers with testing skills can communicate effectively with each other and pairing results in faster bug identification and removal
• Unit tests are an asset of confidence
• Testers have an ethical responsibility to think beyond the intended use of the code, considering what could happen and how the product could be misused
• Exploratory testing is an approach where instead of trying to prove that the software works, the goal is discovery
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