Two guests make the case for a central model that curates data to make testers proactive.

Wayne Ariola and Tom Pryce of Curiosity Software discuss a vision for an open testing platform built on three concepts: inform, act and automate. They argue testers manage far more complexity than developers and need a central abstracted model or reference diagram to collaborate around, fed by curated data from across the business. The conversation covers moving from projects to products, aligning testing with business value and risk rather than raw test counts, and using shift-left and shift-right data (like APM alerts on an Android issue in Brazil) to make testing proactive. They promote model-based testing and test data automation tools (testmodeler.io, testdataautomation.io) as ways to avoid vendor lock-in and generate tests in any framework.

**In this episode:**

**Guest:** Wayne Ariola — Software quality and DevOps strategist  

> “2021 is the era of data optimization for the tester, meaning we are going to learn how to curate information to make the tester more productive.”

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