The Lost Art of Testing: Communication, Improv and Fundamentals — feat. Damian Synadinos (Ineffable Solutions)

Show notes

A speaker and improv teacher argues the future of testing is a return to communication fundamentals. Damian Synadinos recounts 25 years in software testing since CompuServe and his pivot to full-time professional speaking, blending testing, improv comedy and a children's book on improv principles. He argues testing has become a lost art as people chase tools and technology while neglecting fundamentals like communication, empathy, semantics, relativism and modeling. He describes mentoring a tester purely through those fundamentals until she could write an excellent bug report without ever being taught severities or steps to reproduce. He champions 'the why' over the what and how, creativity in education, and the idea that everyone is a tester, pointing people to Ineffable Solutions and the QA or the Highway conference. **In this episode:** - Communication & Soft Skills - Mentoring &a