AI is software that is reshaping our world. We are already surrounded by this technology, and it substantially affects our lives. Its influence on humanity continues to intensify. The ability to build, change and operate complex platforms is a key competitive advantage.
AI is software that is reshaping our world. We are already surrounded by this technology, and it substantially affects our lives. Its influence on humanity continues to intensify. The ability to build, change and operate complex platforms is a key competitive advantage. To make sense of this new reality, we must understand how two forces – discovery and creation – evolve together: inquiry drives better design, and design opens new spaces for inquiry. In this talk, we will explore the antiparallel structures at the confluence of deep software testing and modern software engineering in the era of artificial intelligence – where understanding and building are inseparable, and progress in one domain impacts the other.
Ironically, the leading practitioners on both sides of this process often see each other’s reasoning as belonging to incompatible paradigms. They reject one another’s definitions and priorities, build strawman versions of opposing views, and fail to acknowledge any merit in the other side’s arguments
Both an individual industry professional and co-CEO of an independent software testing business, I have spent a substantial part of my career delivering mission-critical capital markets platforms – including electronic exchanges, clearing and settlement systems, algorithmic trading solutions, and fraud and market manipulation detection engines. Through this work, I learned to value both thorough thinking and fast delivery.
I believe that a careful exploration of this dichotomy can offer meaningful insights to leaders responsible for deploying transformational technologies, to advocates of modern software engineering practices, to software testers who take their craft seriously and to anyone interested in understanding these domains more deeply – as their relevance to society will continue to grow at a rapid pace.
