Let’s talk about ethics and software testing
summary
Examples list actual incidents and artifacts: the 2014 Facebook emotion experiment manipulates feeds without consent, emissions-cheating software makes cars behave differently under test yet still reaches customers, Boeing’s MCAS failures lead to two crashes 346 deaths, and a small cloning tool (g4u) attracts license requests from Boeing NATO and US Nuclear Security. Standards and tools show up — ISO 9126, ISTQB, ACM code of ethics, and even kubernetes on a U2 — and the talk gives a concrete warrant/backing schema (Toulmin) for arguing ethical testability.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Ethics in software testing
- 1:32Personal beliefs and warning
- 2:56Facebook emotional experiment
- 3:58VW emissions scandal
- 5:02Boeing 737 Max MCAS silence
- 6:30G4u Unix military license
- 7:57Autonomous cars ethical cloud
- 9:00Ethics standards in testing
- 11:49Convincing others on ethics
- 13:15Toulmin schema for ethics
- 16:09Testers as ethics advocates
- 17:57Promoting ethics in testing
- 19:05Question and answer session
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