Hear, Hear! Lets Talk Testing
summary
Debate runs as a House of Commons style session with a robe, timer, chair relocation and audience shouting “hear hear,” not slides of methods. Four provocation statements — AI replaces testers, anyone can test, cloud leaves testing unchanged, manual beats automation — get argued; outcome: manual testing survives though it shrinks and becomes more creative, certifications help hiring but feel outdated, and automation plus canary releases shift who tests what. Discussion relies on anecdotes, opinion and live voting, not on experiments or new tools.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Interactive testing debate
- 1:14Debate format explained
- 7:28First statement vote
- 9:48Debate rules and relocation
- 13:19Russian testers debate
- 18:38Manual testing future
- 26:07Certifications debate
- 35:24Summary of statements
- 38:20Closing remarks
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