The Testing Show

Testing AI in the National Health Service (NHS)

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we dive into how artificial intelligence is being developed, tested, and trusted within the UK's National Health Service. Our guest i...

Synthetic Data in Testing

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome Pat Rinaldo and Naresh Kumar Nunna to discuss the importance of synthetic test data for or...

Women In Testing, Part 2

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the second part of our Women in Testing podcast  Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome guest moderator Gwen Iarussi and guests Alexis Bell, ...

Women In Testing, Part 1

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For this Episode, we welcome guest moderator Gwen Iarussi for an International take on women in testing roles from the front lines to senior managemen...

Test Coaching

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Test Coaching requires understanding team dynamics, building trust, and providing tailored coaching to help testers improve their skills and address p...

Sap For Utilities 2024 Reflections

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Qualitest recently participated in the SAP for Utilities conference in Florida and we have several key players who part of the proceedings. Matt Heuss...

Testing in the News: CrowdStrike and lessons for Testers

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

CrowdStrike showed the world that problems can be found in unexpected places and can manifest in ways never intended with devastating results. While t...

Let's Get Continuous

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

CI/CD is a topic that comes up a lot and many organizations profess to doing it. Are they really doing it effectively? That was the question we had in...

What's new in SAP testing?

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SAP testing has its own world in the testing ecosphere. It's a huge component (or set of components) and yet there may be many who know little about i...

Testing with Generative AI

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Testing Show, Matt and Michael welcome Alisha Mittal, Vice President at the Everest Group, and Vikul Gupta, CTO for Qualitest N...

Cognitive Biases In Testing

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Testing Show, Michael Larsen interviews Señor Performo, Leandro Melendez, about cognitive biases and how they can affect testi...

Developing and Testing Mobile Apps With Global Teams

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Making the move to mobile-first application development is creating interesting challenges for co-located global teams. To this end, Matthew Heusser a...

Digital Transformation in Credit Unions

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Testing Show, Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome Dmitriy Melnik from BCU, Sri Aravamudan from Qualitest, and Mike Mokrz...

Working Asynchronously

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a time where remote work is much more normal, there is a give and take between what work can be done simultaneously and in tandem with others versu...

Testing For Utilities

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The world of Utilities is undergoing a massive shift and has been doing so for the better part of a decade. With the advent of new renewable technolog...

Live From Agile and Beyond

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, our show host Matt Heusser headed out to Detroit to participate in the Agile and Beyond Conference being held there. In the process, he gath...

AI in Testing

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We've had a chance to focus on a great deal of speculation and interest in Artificial Intelligence models over the past several shows and for this epi...

The ROI on Testing

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We can talk all day long about the importance of quality and testing but for many, this question will always come down to "How much is this going to c...

The Testing Show: Qualipride

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In celebration of June being Pride month, The Testing Show is doing a special program focusing on "Qualipride", which is the Employee Resource Group (...

Enhancing the Reality within Virtual Reality with Q Analysts

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the metaverse and VR become more and more present and active. To that end it makes sense that there are companies working towards mak...

ChatGPT and Testing Jobs

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For today's show, Beth Marshall and Chris Kenst return to continue the ChatGPT conversation, and today's focus is on what effect, if any, Chat GPT may...

Data Management and Analytics

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Software testing covers a lot of areas. Perhaps one of the most important, yet often overlooked, is the quality of the data that is both part of testi...

ChatGPT for Testers

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the past several months, ChatGPT has been getting a lot of attention as a new cool tool that everyone is talking about. It can generate song lyrics...

The Testing Show: Assessing Quality Practices

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Agile Testing and some would say Modern Testing is built around understanding the processes and quality practices necessary to deliver a quality produ...

The Testing Show: A Tester Walks Through Product Ownership

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many individuals on the team have a vested interest in what the tester provides and reports on. One such important team member is the product owner, w...

The Testing Show: The Deeper Things of Testing, Part 2

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this second part of a two-part series, Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen continue their conversation with Perze Ababa, Jon Bach, and Jen Crichlow ...

The Testing Show: The Deeper Things of Testing, Part 1

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this first of a two-part series, Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome Perze Ababa, Jon Bach, and Jen Crichlow to discuss the broader ideas of...

The Testing Show: Curating Your Testing Career

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to Software Testing, there is no guarantee that what a tester is doing today will resemble what they are doing five or ten years from no...

The Testing Show: Intelligent Testing

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For years, organizations have lured their time talent and resources into Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment efforts, with an additional ...

The Testing Show: Program Management

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Software testing and program management share many of the same skills and what helps make a software tester effective can also be applied to the world...

The Testing Show: Testing AI and Machine Learning

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have often taken on a near-mythical status in the software development pantheon as of late. Of course, as...

The Testing Show: "How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing": A Decade Later

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 2012, Matthew Heusser, Michael Larsen, and a number of other testers and test professionals came together to write a book devoted to the topic...

The Testing Show: Teaching Software Engineering

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For many years, Computer Science was the only way, educationally speaking, to learn about methodologies related to programming software and building l...

The Testing Show: Infrastructure Assurance and Cloud Conversions

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Applications are moving rapidly from company datacenters to the Cloud. With these changes come new challenges with building applications and testing t...

The Testing Show: Would Heu-Risk It? What's In The Cards For You?

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode goes in some unusual but interesting directions. Lena Wiberg joins Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen to talk about Lana's book and card ...

The Testing Show: Data Quality

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In our ever-changing world of applications, processes, and systems, we spend a lot of time talking specifically about improving those applications and...

The Testing Show: The Changing World of Cyber Security

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, and in many ways still, there was the sense that Cyber Security was the realm of elite professionals who were trained and experts in...

The Testing Show: Qualipride

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In celebration of June being Pride month, The Testing Show is doing a special program focusing on "Qualipride", which is the Employee Resource Group (...

The Testing Show: Accessibility For Everything

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In many cases Accessibility and Accessibility Testing are done as late in the game processes and done to make sure that a level of compliance is met f...

The Testing Show: New York To New You ft. Manoj Gupta

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We spend a lot of time talking about the quality engineering of systems and processes. We spend considerably less time talking about the quality engin...

The Testing Show: Women In Testing, Part 2

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gwen Iarussi and Rachel Kibler continue their discussion with Catherine Carlos, Christina Codreanu, Rajini Padmanaban, and Maaret Pyhäjärvi. In this...

The Testing Show: Women In Testing, Part 1

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first part of a two-part series that we are recording for Women's History Month. To that end, we have changed things up. Gwen Iarussi and ...

The Testing Show: Testing For Pharma

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The pharmaceutical space (Pharma) is an area where many people have ideas of a tightly regulated environment, where initiatives can range from in-hous...

The Testing Show: Six Personas in Software Testing to Avoid

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever noticed that there seems to be a certain level of dysfunction that can take hold in various companies? If that may feel like too strong ...

The Testing Show: Do We Still Need the Phrase "Agile Testing"?

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Agile as a development practice (and by extension Agile Testing) has been around now for two decades. By virtue of that, many changes and adaptations ...

The Testing Show: Building Testing Frameworks

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Automation is a key component of most software development initiatives. It's not just for testing, it also figures into the build process, Continuous ...

The Testing Show: The Accessibility Mindset?

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When we think of making a website accessible, we often think of making sure a screen reader works to help navigate a site or to make sure we have alt ...

The Testing Show: Is It Testable?

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of the great challenges of software testing is the fact that software is often designed to accomplish goals for a user but is developed in a way t...

The Testing Show: Live from QASummit: Post Game Wrap Up

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's show comes live from the QA Summit, held in South Jordan, Utah on July 28, 2021. Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome back Rachel Ki...

The Testing Show: The QA Summit Pre-Game Show

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's been quite some time since we have been able to attend in-person conferences. For a brief window, vaccination rates and easing of travel restrict...

The Testing Show: The Dying Business? Really?

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How many times has the death of testing been touted? How many talks have been giving declaring the death of testing? Granted, those talks have a speci...

The Testing Show: TestOps

08 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the idea of melding operations and software development led to the discipline of DevOps, so has the idea of melding testing and operations led to t...

The Testing Show: Insurance Testing

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Does the idea of wearing a device that can monitor your movement, heart rate, and blood pressure to lower your health insurance premiums (or raise the...

The Testing Show: Talking About Risk

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today's show gets away from the typical risk and testing approach, as in what techniques to use. Instead, Jenny Bramble, Director of Quality Assurance...

The Testing Show: Quality Engineering with Anbu Muppidathi

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's our 100th Episode and Qualitest has a new Chief Executive and "Chief Testing" Officer designate in Anbu Anbu Muppidathi who joins Matthew Heusser...

The Testing Show: Building Testers

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For many organizations and educational systems, there's a need for testers and testing talent but there isn't a clear path for someone to go learn abo...

The Testing Show: Test Management

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does test management mean in today's software development world? Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome Gwen Iarussi and Lalitkumar Bhamare t...

The Testing Show: Storm Readiness Testing

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what happens when something like a nor'easter, a tornado, a blizzard, or a wildfire comes through your area? How to critical sy...

The Testing Show: API Testing

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In todays fast paced and ever more complex software development landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are more important than ever. Tes...

The Testing Show: The Intersection of Testing and Quality

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, testing was about creating the right documentation, making sure requirements were correct, be the quality police, and tell everybody...

The Testing Show: New Thinking In Management

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On today's show, Matt Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome Johanna Rothman, long time management author and coach to talk about the changing roles in ma...

The Testing Show: Open Source Testing

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For many software testers, it can be challenging to build up a portfolio of work that can demonstrate skill, knowledge, and expertise. Having GitHub a...

The Testing Show: Chaos Engineering

05 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us are familiar with the idea of negative testing, where we feed bad data or inputs to a program or application to see how it behaves. That wo...

The Testing Show: Your Changing Career

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Now more than ever, the idea of working for one company and doing one job for our working life is an outdated notion. For many of us, curating and dev...

The Testing Show: Infrastructure As Code

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this day and age, everything is becoming code. It used to be just the applications but with the proliferation of software to create software (think...

The Testing Show: External vs. Internal Software Testing

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Software fills many niches and does many things for individuals and businesses. Some software is designed and developed for mass user interaction, whi...

The Testing Show: Virtual Conference Testing

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The title this week may seem odd but it is indeed correct, as Michael Larsen participated in and in effect helped to test out the various challenges a...

The Testing Show: De-Risking Enterprise QA with Simon Evans

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As organizations get larger or infrastructure/software becomes more relied upon, testing itself can have its share of risks. For this episode, Matt an...

The Testing Show: Dealing with Tech Burnout

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's safe to say that 2020 has introduced challenges into people's lives in unprecedented ways (at least in our current times). Some are thriving but ...

The Testing Show: Record and Playback

12 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There have been record and playback tools available for the past few decades, with varying results and reputations. They often over promise and under ...

The Testing Show: Optimized QA with Aviram Shotten

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It may feel that your team may be doing a lot of testing but how do you know if you are doing the right testing or the needed testing and not wasting ...

The Testing Show: The BIASED Podcast

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As software testers, we are often told that we need to check our biases at the door, to not go in with preconceived notions, to look past logical fall...

The Testing Show: Scaled Agile with Yoav Ziv

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's one thing to apply Agile principles to a new project or to a small initiative. It's another thing entirely to apply these principles to a large o...

The Testing Show: Career Development in the Time of COVID

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the weeks turn into months and COVID-19 infections continue in many places around the globe, plans for Career Development and conferring with other...

The Testing Show: The Secret Weapon of QA Modernization

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's tempting to think that, in an area like Software Testing, "it's all been done" in some ways or another. To say that there's some "secret weapon" ...

The Testing Show: Prioritizing Testing in DevOps

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this "COVID" edition of The Testing Show, Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome James Back to discuss the state of testing and the push toward...

The Testing Show: Working Remotely

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With Shelter at Home orders in place in many cities and entire countries due to COVID-19, we are experiencing an experiment not yet tried in our histo...

The Testing Show: Scaled Agile

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In what is proving to be a challenging month for most of the world, we decided to tackle the topic of SAFe, basically the Scaled Agile Framework. Mat...

The Testing Show: Performance Assurance

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We've heard of Performance Testing but what is Performance Assurance? In a One on One conversation, Matt Heusser talks with Leandro Melendez about the...

The Testing Show: How to Identify Testing Talent

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As it is a new year, we decided it would be interesting to discuss the hiring of testing talent as well as being the testing talent and looking to be ...

The Testing Show: Agile Testing – From DevOps to Continuous Delivery

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Agile Testing has now been around in some form or another for two decades, yet it seems that what people are calling Agile Testing and what Agile Test...

The Testing Show: Cyber and Security

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In many organizations the security testing is often done by an outside group or entity, often late in the project and with very little interactions by...

The Testing Show: Coverage

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Coverage is a broad area and asking ten people will probably get you ten different answers. We didn't ask ten people but we did ask three and this pod...

The Testing Show: A Career In Testing

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you thought about what brought you to your testing career thus far lately? If you are looking to get into testing where do you even start? That's...

The Testing Show: Women In Tech

27 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For this episode of The Testing Show, Matt and Michael step back and invite Elle Gee, Jessica Ingrassellino, Rachel Kibler, Claire Moss, and Lihi Sege...

The Testing Show: UX and Usability

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How often do we look at an application and wonder what the people who were designing it were thinking? When jumping through hoops that seem odd or out...

The Testing Show: Testing In India

24 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This time on The Testing Show, Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen welcome Mahesh Chikane and Smita Mishra to talk about the unique challenges and oppo...

The Testing Show: SAP Testing

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

SAP (Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing) is a large suite of software products best described as being an Enterprise Resource Planni...

The Testing Show: Stress Cases

19 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are all familiar with stress testing when we put an application under load or negative conditions but what about when we put ourselves under those ...

The Testing Show: Advanced Agile with DevOps

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

DevOps is a common term and one that seems to be hard to pin down or to define. Additionally, it seems that for many, the idea behind DevOps seems to ...

The Testing Show: Digital Transformation

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past several decades, we have witnessed many changes in the way that we do things. Catalogs are mostly things of the past, as are phone books...

The Testing Show: Testing with AI and Machine Learning

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are the hip buzzwords at the moment and if you listen to enough people, they are the hot new technologies...

The Testing Show: Meaningful Performance

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Today as we see the ideas of server-less architecture, cloud-based implementations and more distributed services come into play, the way that we think...

The Testing Show: Usable Metrics

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Over the years, a variety of metrics have been gathered to measure and determine how well or how poorly the processes of software quality and software...

The Testing Show: Building Great Testing Teams

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As the software delivery process matures and grows, a variety of teams are forming and becoming part of the everyday testing landscape. These teams ma...

The Testing Show: Conferences and Conferring with Anna Royzman, Claire Moss and Mike Lyles

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

August is a busy time of year for software testing conferences (not to mention conferences in other industries). This month, we decided that, with eve...

The Testing Show: GDPR with Daniel Leigh

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Like many software users, it's a good bet that you received a lot of pop-up messages or emails telling you that you had to log in to various sites and...

The Testing Show: When Complete Automation Seems Impossible with Graeme Harvey

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It seems that "Automating Everything" is an implicit of not an explicit goal in many organizations. In the process of trying, many projects fail in ac...

The Testing Show: Usability with Smita Mishra

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Usability is a big deal with applications and application "stickiness". The better the Usability, the more likely an application will be successfully ...

The Testing Show: Continuous Testing with Gerie Owen

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Continuous Testing. Sounds cool, doesn't it? The bigger question, though, is "What does is it really mean?" In the DevOps world, it's something that ...