CAST 2014

In testing our role is to discover things, to find bugs and look for information about risk. To do that we conduct a series of science experiments. Testing is all about discovery. 

How do we discover things? The psychology of scientific discovery was a topic that fascinated David Khlar, so much so that he conducted a series of scientific experiments using robots to figure out how people discovered in a given problem space. 

In this workshop, we’re going to use robots and repeat these experiments to examine through experimentation and observation how we discover, how it may relate to test design, test execution and test reporting. Of course, we will have to test these ideas, and perhaps create null hypothesis to work out if our ideas are valid. 

A large part of science is publishing your findings and this tutorial will do the same. The second part of the tutorial will be spent collating our findings, debating their validity and putting them together in a white paper that will be published with acknowledgement to all who participated. 

So don your lab coat, your curiosity, your skeptical mindset but most of all your enthusiasm and passion and join me for a day of scientific experimentation. Be warned, this workshop will not be for the feint hearted, but will be a lot of fun and by the end of the day, we will have a paper we can proudly point to!