Richie discusses webinar strategies for cost-effective testing, AI’s evolving role in QA, automation challenges, and shift-left practices, while reflecting on past mistakes and outlining 2026 podcast goals including new topics like performance testing and soft skills. The episode emphasizes collaboration, transparency in testing, and adapting to technological changes while highlighting key episodes and future growth plans.

Richard Seidl Software Testing

This is the other podcast on Software Testing by Richard Seidl, the episodes are in spoken German but the show notes and site are written in English. Our summaries are generated from AI transcript translations.

• https://www.richard-seidl.com/en/blog/tag/podcast-software-testing
• https://www.richard-seidl.com/en/

Episode Details

• Show Notes: https://www.richard-seidl.com/de/blog/jahresrueckblick-2025
• Published: 2025-12-30T05:00:00Z
• Duration: 2177
• Author: Richard Seidl - Experte fur Software-Entwicklung und Testautomatisierung

Overview

The podcast delves into various aspects of software testing, emphasizing how error prevention in testing can reduce costs, as demonstrated by a case study from Vestas. It also explores the challenges of maintaining conversational flow during interviews and highlights the need for constructive feedback to improve future episodes. The episode examines the role of testers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape, advocating for adapting to AI and automation while underscoring the importance of human judgment. The discussion covers key elements of test strategies and automation efforts, highlighting realistic automation limitations and the impact of flaky tests on CI/CD pipelines. The shift-left testing approach is promoted as a strategy for integrating testing early in the development process, fostering collaboration between testers, developers, and business analysts. Finally, the podcast reflects on recent content and outlines future topics, as well as shared learning from a personal experience in podcast production.