Rafael E. Santos

Posts by Rafael E. Santos

Founder Rafael E. Santos is a Stevie Award winner whose 27-year career includes strategic technology and product leadership roles. As CTO, Rafael oversaw the successful $500M acquisition of e-Builder and defined the technology upgrade strategy for future growth. He's now taking his start-up experience to the next level with Testaify, which will fix testing forever.

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Black box and White box testing terms have too many limits imposed on them.

Time to Challenge the Testing Orthodoxy

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Here are my issues with the White Box and Black Box testing terms. As ...

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Behavior driven development forms test cases with Given, When, and Then clauses.

Why is Behavior Driven Development (BDD) not used by most agile teams?

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My journey in Agile software development began in 2004 and has been a ...

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Use cases define systems requirements. The best use cases come through Behavior Driven Development (BDD).

When it comes to test design, have we made any significant changes?

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In my blog post about the evolution of software testing, I discussed t...

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A frustrated man has a computer over his head with his forehead on his desk.

Does software quality matter in the technology world?

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Not that much in the recent past There was a time when I wondered if s...

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There are so many testing combinations that no one person can do it all. This tester looks confused and frustrated.

What is the biggest challenge in functional test efforts?

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As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I was researching the biggest ...

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Testing autonomously is only possible if AI conducts Discovery.

Everybody is talking about autonomous software testing. Are we there yet?

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In February, Antithesis came out of stealth mode with a seed round of ...

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This image shows a heap of scrabble letters underneath a magnifying glass. Testing definitions are similarly chaotic.

Can we agree on what every term means?

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Let’s resolve this annoying software testing problem! There are signif...

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Imagine your journey to autonomous testing. This image features moody, ethereal faces with the blog title as a text overlay.

The Journey to Autonomous Software Testing (Part 2)

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In Part 1 of this post, we discussed the evolution of testing from the...

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There are four, no, five schools of software testing that help us on the road to autonomous software testing.

There's Four, No, Five Schools of Testing

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The Journey to Independent Testing via AI/ML - Part 1 As we keep worki...

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Test automation is a sickness because it keeps us busy with scripts, not with talking about test strategy. We have to switch gears.

Why do we discuss test automation so much?

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Countdown to Testaify Functional for Web I have been fortunate in my c...

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