As Chief Process Officer at TestSolutions GmbH in Germany, Florian Fieber is responsible for the test process management of the entire organization as well as the training area with the TestSolutions Academy. He has been working in the area of quality assurance of software systems for almost 20 years and has (co-)founded several training and consulting companies during this time. His focus as a consultant and trainer is on test management, test process management and test process improvement.
After studying media informatics and information systems, he initially worked as a software developer for enterprise applications and as a research assistant at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Technology. Since then, his focus has developed from test analysis and test automation to test management and process improvement and today includes all quality assurance aspects throughout the entire software life cycle.
He has been a member of the German Testing Board (GTB) since 2018 and is committed to the further development of the ISTQB Certified Tester scheme. From 2020 to 2022 he was vice president and since 2022 he has been president of the GTB.
Thanks to the general availability and widespread use of large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini & Co., we have become aware of the disruptive importance of AI for our discipline. It is obvious that when testing AI systems, we must deal with new technologies, test techniques and therefore new requirements and skillsets for testers. Above all, AI-based systems will have a massive impact on the work of testers; large language models and other AI systems can already partially take over the work of testers.
What does this mean for the role of testing in the next few years? What changes will we have to adapt to and what will the role of testing look like in ten years? Will software testing, as we know it today, still play a role in the future? And if so, do we still need humans for this? In my keynote, I would like to shed light on the current status of testing with AI, show possible future scenarios and try to find plausible answers to these questions.
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