In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lanette Creamer about the need for technical skills by testers and the importance of exploratory testing.

Why listen to this podcast:

• Despite the importance and value it provides, software testing is not a particularly respected profession

• Testers with development skills and developers with testing skills can communicate effectively with each other and pairing results in faster bug identification and removal

• Unit tests are an asset of confidence

• Testers have an ethical responsibility to think beyond the intended use of the code, considering what could happen and how the product could be misused

• Exploratory testing is an approach where instead of trying to prove that the software works, the goal is discovery

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