Testing United 2025 - Milano
Milan closed my biggest speaking year. The question on the slide, whether AI can replace a feature team, stopped being rhetorical within months. Here is what that room asked, and what the experiment answered.
Istambul Software Testing Conference 2025
My first conference in Turkey, and a critical-thinking talk in front of a room with no idea who I was. The discussion kept coming back to balancing AI with fundamentals. I now think balance is the wrong word.
TestFest : 2025
My first test:fest talk in 2015 was about testing versus checking. Ten editions later I was on the same stage talking about critical thinking and AI. It was the same question, wearing new clothes.
QA or the Highway 2025: the conference was one stop on a three-week research trip
In 2025 I went back to Columbus, but the conference wasn't really the destination. It anchored a three-week US road trip that doubled as user research for an app I hadn't shipped yet.
The Chapter, and the Company It Keeps
Four weeks ago I put a claim on this blog: trust in software is produced, not felt. Last week I named the four ways AI-assisted delivery quietly stops producing it, and I promised that this post would do something different — walk through what is actually inside the chapter.
Is the token even the right unit of account?
The honest answer is: the token might not be a unit of account at all. That's a problem, because I've spent eleven posts denominating everything in it.
The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis
The slides and the full talk breakdown live on the other track. This isn't that post. This is the other thing that happened at CAST26, and the reason this series ended on a stage at all: seven posts' worth of argument, finally standing in front of a room that got to push back.
