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		<title>Quality Engineering Is Not Testing</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2026/04/quality-engineering-is-not-testing</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are subtle but serious problems in the testing business right now, and if we don’t attend to them they will lead to bigger problems. The core problem I&#8217;m attending to today is confusion between testing and quality engineering. Engineering Let me start by saying I believe that quality engineering is a good thing. Or rather, I believe that engineering is a good thing. As Billy Vaughan Koen said in ... <a title="Quality Engineering Is Not Testing" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2026/04/quality-engineering-is-not-testing" aria-label="Read more about Quality Engineering Is Not Testing">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Extended Holidays</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“We&#8217;re happy to acknowledge when we make errors, and we&#8217;ve made a few in this case for sure, but also that we are willing to address those. And we&#8217;ve taken immediate action in all of these cases,” he said. “And we certainly apologize for any effect or adverse effect that this has had on trust in the community, because we want people to be confident in what we&#8217;re doing.” David ... <a title="Extended Holidays" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2026/04/extended-holidays" aria-label="Read more about Extended Holidays">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bugs Cost the Business</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2026/03/bugs-cost-the-business</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Scenario Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing Story]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This open letter originally appeared as a post on LinkedIn. Dear QBD Books… Good software design matters. Without good software design for your Web site, users may have trouble, and that trouble can cost you money. Testing matters too. Testing experientially matters. Without experiential testing, you won&#8217;t discover certain things about your site that represent bad design. And that can cost you real money. Let me explain. Today, I wanted ... <a title="Bugs Cost the Business" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2026/03/bugs-cost-the-business" aria-label="Read more about Bugs Cost the Business">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Is Testing? A Conversation with James Bach and Michael Bolton</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2026/02/what-is-testing-a-conversation-with-james-bach-and-michael-bolton</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Alton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Podcasts on Quality Assurance and Testing In this video podcast, Alex Khvastocvich sat down with James Bach and Michael Bolton to answer a deceptively simple question: What is testing? Alex says A lot of people still reduce testing to “finding bugs.” But if you take testing seriously, it’s much bigger than that. We talk about: What testing actually is (and what it isn’t) And a bit about the future of ... <a title="What Is Testing? A Conversation with James Bach and Michael Bolton" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2026/02/what-is-testing-a-conversation-with-james-bach-and-michael-bolton" aria-label="Read more about What Is Testing? A Conversation with James Bach and Michael Bolton">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI and The Productivity Paradox</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2026/01/ai-and-the-productivity-paradox</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Testing Story]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of days, a LinkedIn conversation has reminded me to write about the Productivity Paradox, which appears in Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach, by James Bach and me. (I haven&#8217;t written a blog post about the delivery and release of the book. I was on tour when it came out, and then a bunch of online classes, the holidays, some sad occasions in the ... <a title="AI and The Productivity Paradox" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2026/01/ai-and-the-productivity-paradox" aria-label="Read more about AI and The Productivity Paradox">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dis Is Weird</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2025/12/dis-is-weird</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[AI Experiments]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When my daughter was two years old, and when she saw something unusual, she would say, &#8220;Dis is weird!&#8221;, mispronouncing the word as &#8220;weeood&#8221;, as little kids are prone to do. Cute as a button. Unrelated to that, the other day I was thinking about what might happen if we had a body of text that we wanted to modify — say, in an article, or a requirements document, or ... <a title="Dis Is Weird" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2025/12/dis-is-weird" aria-label="Read more about Dis Is Weird">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Experiment:  Generating &#8220;Random&#8221; Test Data</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/experiment-generating-random-test-data</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How might we use a GPT in testing? Some have suggested that we could use GPTs to generate test data. Randomized test data can help to reduce patterns of certain biases in our testing. We might assume that getting a bot to produce random data based on a straightforward prompt would be easy. So here&#8217;s a little one-off, first-hurdle experiment I performed July 24, 2025 using Google&#8217;s Gemini 2.5. Here, ... <a title="Experiment:  Generating &#8220;Random&#8221; Test Data" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/experiment-generating-random-test-data" aria-label="Read more about Experiment:  Generating &#8220;Random&#8221; Test Data">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Experience Report:  What Number Is This?</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/experience-report-what-number-is-this</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week, while preparing material for some upcoming Rapid Software Testing (RST) classes focused on testing AI, I was re-reading Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s article What Is ChatGPT Doing… and Why Does It Work? If you want to understand what&#8217;s going on it with any form of generative AI that extrudes text, it&#8217;s a superb summary. In the article, there&#8217;s a section that explains how machine learning works, using a classic example: ... <a title="Experience Report:  What Number Is This?" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/experience-report-what-number-is-this" aria-label="Read more about Experience Report:  What Number Is This?">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Experts?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Thinking]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Rapid Software Testing namespace, critical thinking is thinking about thinking with the goal of avoiding being fooled. We have a quick mnemonic to trigger critical thing: WHeReAS. Ask: Who? Huh? Really? And? So? For a long time, we had only the latter four items on the list. Evaluating an observation or a claim depends on making sure that we’ve understood the statement or idea we’re examining. That’s “Huh?” “Really?” ... <a title="Experts?" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/experts" aria-label="Read more about Experts?">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI and Rapid Software Testing</title>
		<link>https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/ai-and-rapid-software-testing</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Bolton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In our forthcoming book, Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach, James Bach and I have included a chapter on AI. AI is fraught with risk, but writing about it is too. All through its history (since the 1950s, NOT just since 2022 or 2012), &#8220;AI&#8221; has not been an engineering term, but a marketing term, without clear notions of what &#8220;artificial intellience&#8221; really means. And all along, the ... <a title="AI and Rapid Software Testing" class="read-more" href="https://developsense.com/blog/2025/07/ai-and-rapid-software-testing" aria-label="Read more about AI and Rapid Software Testing">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
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