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The episode discusses the role of testers in development and the pitfalls of siloed quality assurance.

Share Episode                               We sit down with Itacama CEO Pia Wiedermayer to discuss the absurdity of siloed QA, the disaster of AI-generated API tests, and why developers hate the word "quality." This time we are asking the age-old question: Who needs testers anyway? Pia and Warren discuss how to dismantle the toxic culture of isolated quality assurance.           We explore how the ghosts of waterfall development still haunt modern teams, creating silos where developers blindly throw unverified code over the wall and expect a separate QA department to magically inject quality. Included is the inevitable discussion on the psychological safety of hiding behind narrow job titles and why refusing to take collective ownership of a product is a guaranteed recipe for architectural failure.           Of course we can't adoiv commenting on the terrifying reality of replacing human intuition with automated hype. Pia shares a case study of a scale-up…

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Host: Warren Parad

Guest: Pia Wiedermayer

Topics covered

• quality assurance
• AI in development
• software testing
• team collaboration
• development culture

Keywords

• testers
• QA
• AI-generated tests
• waterfall development
• psychological safety
• automated testing
• software development

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Organizations: Itacama

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