Viktor Slavchev - Automation vs. Intelligence - “Come With Me, If You Want To Live”
Channel: Challenge Accepted Events
Date: 2018-06-26

Have you ever heard the story that your job is automatable, that all the human testers will be replaced by machines or automated tests and you will lose your job? Or even worse, that machines and artificial intelligence will take over our craft and our life and we will be totally useless. Do you buy these? Are you afraid? “Come with me, if you want to live” - this was the famous line that many members of the human resistance in the Terminator franchise used, when offering their help in the war against Skynet. So, come with me (and John Connor), and join the testing resistance to fight on the side of intellect against the evil machine army. I am willing to challenge the I part in AI on contest by focusing on few key topics: can we translate testing into machine language? Polymorphic and mimeomorphic actions - what are these? Do we really know what are the benefits of human testing? What are human testers irreplaceable for? Do we really have empirical evidence that computers are capable of doing professional testing? Do we have evidence of “intelligence” at all? Last year at RTC ‘17 I was asked - “Is AI the answer to all test automation problems?”. My answer is “no, it’s not!”. And this talk is my explanation why.

Viktor Slavchev is a senior software quality assurance engineer in Siteground, with vast experience and skills in QA and strong interest in development in C#, Java and JS, as well as in system administration. He's also well known with his experience as a blogger and as a teacher in the field of software testing. He was also a speaker in QA: Challenge Accepted 3.0