
Mental skills keep testers thinking when AI offers to do it for them, and Ard Kramer puts it bluntly: you can't outsource your brain. With him I talk about why an idle brain loses its connections, how his cue HAH...


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Software testing is no longer just a phase—it’s the foundation of modern engineering and your ultimate competitive advantage. Welcome to Software Testing Unleashed, the weekly podcast for anyone dedicated to building better software, faster. Hosted by Richard Seidl, renowned expert in software development and testing, this show is your backstage pass to the tools, tactics, and trends defining the next era of Quality Engineering. Whether you are a QA Engineer, SDET, Developer, or Tech Leader, each week we bring you field-tested insights from the brightest minds in the software universe to answer the industry’s toughest questions: - Smart Automation: When should you automate, and when is it a trap? - AI & ML in Testing: How do you maintain quality in a world of non-deterministic code? - The "How Much" Dilemma: How much testing is actually enough for your specific scale? - Architecture & DevEx: What makes a great integration test and how do you improve developer experience? From scaling QA strategies in enterprise projects to building your very first test suite, we bridge the gap between complex theory and practical execution. We dive deep into CI/CD, Cloud-native complexity, and the future of manual vs. automated testing. 🚀 Ready to unleash the next level of quality? Hit play, subscribe, and join a global movement of software professionals shipping with confidence.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSoftware testing is no longer just a phase, it’s the foundation of modern engineering and your ultimate competitive advantage. Welcome to Software Testing Unleashed, the weekly podcast for anyone dedicated to building better software, faster.
Recent episodes include "Mental Skills: Testers Can't Outsource Their Brain to AI - Ard Kramer" (29 October 2026, 19 minutes), "Testing AI Models as Magic Boxes: Why Checks Fail - Michael Bolton" (22 October 2026, 28 minutes), and "Dark Side of Testing: The Failures We Cause Ourselves - Bart Knaack" (15 October 2026, 19 minutes).
Software Testing Unleashed - QA, DevEx & Quality Engineering publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 24 minutes.
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Mental skills keep testers thinking when AI offers to do it for them, and Ard Kramer puts it bluntly: you can't outsource your brain. With him I talk about why an idle brain loses its connections, how his cue HAH...

Testing AI models means testing a magic box: nobody has the source code, and the behavior is neither controlled nor understood. Michael Bolton calls that strongly magical, and with him I talk about what follows from it...

Testing is supposed to prevent failures in production, yet sometimes the test itself is what breaks things. Bart Knaack calls this the dark side of testing, and we talk about test data leaking out of poorly protected...

What does it take to turn a risky one-time event into a conference that testers travel across borders for? With Okan Çakmak I talk about how the Istanbul Software Testing Conference grew out of something missing: after...

What happens when AI ships poor quality faster, and nobody notices because the pipeline stays green? With Michaël Pilaeten I talk about why test automation without a clear strategy is a problem that AI only accelerates...

What separates a handful of agents from a real agentic system? With Nishan Portoyan I talk about exactly that line, and why most teams are still on the wrong side of it. We walk through a full testing pipeline where...

What happens to quality when anyone can generate code with a prompt but nobody checks whether it actually works? With Olivier Denoo I talk about why that question puts expert testers in a stronger position than many...

Why do we rush to fix problems before we actually understand them? With Nirmala Saneechur I talk about Lean management, what it means to deliver quality at the right time rather than just on time, and why spending a...

Forty percent of automation time lost to flakiness and maintenance: that is the reality Lilia Gargouri describes. I talked with Lilia about end-to-end test automation at scale, and what struck me most was how far back...

With Sebastian Malyska I talk about what sits behind the APIs testers often take for granted. We get into why REST is still on top but not the whole story, how GraphQL and webhooks fit into the picture, and what...

With Klaudia Dussa Zieger I talk about where language models actually deliver in testing and where they fall flat. We get into the concrete details: why a small function like generating keyword documentation works so...

With Jean-Francois Riverin I get into a question that bothered him for over 20 years: why are there still bugs in production even when you tested as well as you possibly could? His answer is that software stopped being...

With Kari Kakkonen I talk about what happens when you explain software testing through a fantasy story for children, where dragons are defects and knights are testers. We get into how the analogy grew into a full world...

What does it actually take to move from finding defects to preventing them? With Zsolt Hargitai I talk about TMMI, a framework for improving test processes, and why that shift in mindset marks the difference between a...

What does it actually mean to unlearn something, and why does that question matter as much as learning new skills right now? With Graziela Tonin I talk about how universities, companies, and individuals are struggling...

What happens to the teams and organizations left behind after an agile transformation that didn't deliver what it promised? With Michael Mahlberg I talk about why the word "agile" has lost its meaning, how big...

What does a tester actually need right now, when AI tools are everywhere and QA teams keep getting cut? With Tara Walton I talk about why communication and the fundamentals of testing matter more than ever, and why...

How do you bring AI into a medical lab when the regulatory landscape is still taking shape? With Alexis Savkin I talk about exactly that tension, and the answer turns out to be less about technology than about focus and...

What happens when 40 years of custom decisions stack so high that even the standard testing tools from your own vendor stop working? With Bartosz Filipek and Szymon Wałachowski I talk about exactly that situation: a...

This time I talk with Dušanka Lečić about why testing chatbots breaks everything we know about traditional QA. She explains how chatbot bugs are invisible – they hide in prompts, retrieval logic, and chunks, not in code...
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