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Jul 8, 2026
Shift Critical Thinking Left: Continuous Critical Thinking in the Test Lifecycle
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Rosie SherryHOST
Would you, uh, for the benefit of the audience and the listeners, would you like to give a bit of a more detailed introduction to yourself?

Stephen PlattenGUEST
Um, so like most testers, didn't come into testing with the traditional route, which seems to be the way.

Stephen PlattenGUEST
Um, so I was originally an Air Force engineer, so worked on fast jets and software systems for about 13, 14 years.

Stephen PlattenGUEST
Uh, and then the last, like s- probably five, six, seven years of that period, uh, I was obviously doing software testing, and it's just, no, that's what it was.

Stephen PlattenGUEST
So it was like trials and evaluation, validation software work, was working based upon requirements, creating test cases, not knowing that that was even a thing.
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Rosie SherryHOST
... at least partly it's like that's po- that can be a way to think about critical thinking.