"Quality Coach, Test Coach" & "Demonstration, Experiment, and Testing"

Michael Bolton is in Copenhagen because he is teaching two Rapid Software Test classes in week 37. Read more about the classes here - there are still available spots and if you use the following Testlab promo code "RST2024CPH", you get a 20% discount on the classes!

Agenda:

• 17:00: Doors open
• 17:30 Welcome
• 17:40 Maria Kedemo leads with her interactive session "Quality Coach, Test Coach"
• 18:30 Break and snacks
• 19:00: Michael Bolton delivers a talk called "Demonstration, Experiment, and Testing"

Read more about the two sessions and the presenters below:

Quality Coach, Test Coach
- What's really in a title?
In this workshop we will explore what the roles Coach in Testing or/and Quality actually do. Maria will share her own insights and experiences by introducing the audience to the Flower model.

Read more about Maria Kedemo here.

Demonstration, Experiment, and Testing
What's the difference between a demonstration and an experiment? Questions like that sound like philosophy, don’t they? Why should that difference matter to managers, developers, teams, and... testers? Who cares?

Alas, in software development, we often call both demonstrations and experiments by the same name: "tests". That’s a problem, because a demonstration shows only that a product can work in a specific set of conditions. Worse yet, a demonstration can even be staged to show that a product can appear to work without actually working at all. By contrast, the essence of a test is an experiment; configuring, operating, and observing a product to learn something about it and its relationship to the world around it.

In this presentation, Michael Bolton how scientists (and, yes, philosophers of science) came to differentiate between demonstration and experiment, and why being clear about the difference is essential to good testing. We test to learn about the product and to discover important problems about it, so that our testing clients can address those problems before it's too late.

Read more about Michael Bolton here