Engineering Culture By Infoq

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 More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3hQAiuP You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional sof