What do the testers of the future look like?
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Predicts that testers become design-minded engineers who embed testability and observability into IoT systems, instrumenting devices for field monitoring and analytics. Cites Volvo’s self-driving cars failing on kangaroos, Amazon scrapping a biased hiring ML tool, Microsoft’s Tay turning extremist in 24 hours, and IoT used for digital domestic abuse as concrete failures testers could have prevented. Argues for roles like embedded quality engineer focused on equivalence classes, data hygiene, and architecting systems for measurable, maintainable behavior.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 0:42What Does the Future Look like
- 1:44Challenges
- 14:49Testability Is Related to Maintainability
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