Black Friday Special - thoughts on automating, confidence and options

Episode 3 of the The Evil Tester Show podcast, hosted by Alan Richardson, titled "Black Friday Special - thoughts on automating, confidence and options" was published on November 24, 2017 and runs 19 minutes.

November 24, 2017 ·19m · The Evil Tester Show

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Software Testing a retail site becomes really important at specific peak times of the year. In this Black Friday Special of The Evil Tester Show Podcast we consider lessons we can learn from discount sales, retail under pressure, and confidence tricksters and expert provocateurs. We discuss: - The Black Friday Software Testing Game - Oracles - Observation - Evidence - Belief - UK Sale of Goods Act - what is a sale? - What is an expert? - How to communicate like an expert - Automating through the GUI - Options for Automating - Testing for Confidence - Communicating Confidence - You can be confident that something is wrong - Confidence doesn't mean Goodness Show notes: http://eviltester.com/show/003-black-friday-2017/

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