Paul Gerrard argues tools should support testers' thinking, not just automate test execution.

Lifetime achievement award winner Paul Gerrard shares his New Model for Testing, framing testing as a set of thought processes and calling on vendors to build tools that support exploration, analysis and decision-making rather than only test execution. He contends there is no one-size-fits-all method, that waterfall, agile and continuous delivery are all context-dependent, and that we need dynamic, event-driven processes to handle the unexpected. Gerrard emphasizes that everything except thinking is logistics, and that machine learning and AI should help testers build better models of complex systems. The conversation closes on the idea, echoing Weinberg, that all problems are ultimately human problems that the industry keeps trying to solve with technology.

**In this episode:**

**Guest:** Paul Gerrard — Testing consultant and thought leader, Gerrard Consulting  

> “Weinberg said very astutely, all problems are human problems, and we're still as a technology industry trying to solve everything with a technology, and that's where we're going wrong.”

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