Michael Bolton
A (Rapid) Introduction To Rapid Software Testing
Rapid Software Testing is a skills-based philosophy and methodology developed by James Bach. This approach allows testers to do excellent work in conditions of uncertainty, insufficient information, and extreme time pressure, in a way that will stand up to scrutiny. Rapid testing finds important bugs quickly, emphasizes thinking, eliminates unnecessary work, right-sizes test documentation, and constantly asks how testers can help to speed the development process by providing timely, valuable information to management.
In this interactive overview, Michael Bolton (the only person other than James Bach who teaches the course) provides a rapid introduction to Rapid Testing. He'll highlight the central skills and practices of the approach; present exercises, puzzles, and games that reinforce the lessons; and welcome challenge, discussion, and debate. Some participants may wish to work through the exercises using tools on their own computers; these people are invited and encouraged to bring laptops.
Michael Bolton has over 15 years of experience in the computer industry testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. He is the founder of DevelopSense, a Toronto-based consultancy.
Michael provides training and consulting in Rapid Software Testing. He writes about testing and software quality in Better Software Magazine as a regular columnist. He contributes to Quality Software, the magazine of the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality, and sporadically produces his own newsletter.
Michael is the only person authorized and endorsed by James Bach to teach his Rapid Software Testing course. Michael has been an invited participant at Cem Kaner and James Bach's Workshop on Teaching Software Testing in Melbourne, Florida, 2003, 2005, and 2006, and was a member of the first Exploratory Testing Research Summit in 2006.
He is Program Chair for the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality, a presenter at this year's Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference in Phoenix, and a member of Gerald M. Weinberg's SHAPE Forum. €