The AST CASTcast: Episode 14: A Survival Guide for the Ethical Software Tester
summary
Hands-on tutorial showing how to spot and respond to real ethical dilemmas: falsified test results, privacy-invasive features (Facebook-quiz linking and microtargeting), products designed to keep customers indebted, and proposals involving animal harm. Offers exercises to map personal ethical bottom lines, role-played coping strategies and scripts for saying no, group safety rules for confidential discussion, and a catalog of common deceptions testers encounter so attendees leave with concrete actions, not theory.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome to CASTcast
- 0:28Fiona Charles origin story
- 1:34Ethical challenges in testing
- 3:37Privacy in network testing
- 5:25Data-driven ethics implications
- 7:09Industry ethics vs values
- 8:33Spotting ethical issues
- 10:39Deception in high-pressure environments
- 11:20Coping for ethical testers
- 12:23Tutorial registration
- 13:06Learn more about Fiona Charles
