AI requires more rigorous testing to ensure its development aligns with humanity's best interests. Thorough testing is essential to maintain control over AI while also allowing it to reach and potentially surpass human intelligence. The rapid advancements and concerns surrounding AI highlight the crucial nature of proper testing. Some…

With all this awesome progress in AI lately — AI should help make testing easy too! It's no wonder so many people avoid software testing — all these frameworks, configurations, integrated development environments, programming languages, selectors, data generation, complex user interfaces, test case databases, bug databases, etc. Ick. We should…

Test results are often viewed as dull and uninspiring, with dashboards of pass/fail results numbing the minds of those who encounter them. Simple summaries of test pass percentages lack context and meaning for most team members. A key issue with software test results is that they are arbitrary quality measures…

Signup for the Beta AI is here whether we are ready or not. AI is increasingly used to create test plans, perform simple test automation, and even pass ISTQB tests. These AI tools will shine when experienced testers can instill their testing expertise into the AI. Trained on Public Data Popular and general-purpose AI…

The emergence of ChatGPT is quickly transforming software development, but the required software testing strategies are lagging. With the rise of GPT-based apps, developers and testers must consider new challenges when measuring and ensuring their products' quality. Unlike traditional software design and testing, which prioritize highly-structured and predictable output, GPT…

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He went to lunch early again. My fellow cube-mates and I were still working on our daily test pass. We efficiently, and carefully walked through line-after-line of test cases in a database. We were manually testing, looking for the unexpected, and running automated scripts — dutifully marking each test as…

How do people fix their wonky software? They reboot it. Working as a software tester on a cable set-top box right out of school, I was supposed to test some things like the ability to change channels and that websites were shrunk down to fit on a TV. We were…

The lab was a dark place at night with rows and rows of computers running test automation. The CPUs spun up, the heat went up, and the screensavers turned on. Thousands of tests exercised the secret new hardware and software that would soon power internet and cable for millions of…