Bob Crews
CEO / Quality Coach / Testing Veteran
About
Bob Crews, CEO / Founder of Checkpoint Technologies, is an entrepreneur, consultant, and trainer with 38 years of IT experience in full life-cycle development, quality assurance, and software testing with a focus on functional and performance testing. He has assisted organizations such as Harvard University, the FBI, J.P. Morgan Chase, Great American Insurance Company, Nationwide, Wal-Mart, the U.S. Air Force, and the Department of Veterans Affairs in developing teams, processes, and solutions to improve the quality of their applications. Bob has spoken at conferences and universities optimizing QA and testing processing, how AI is impacting the software testing world, functional test automation, and risk analysis. He is exceptionally enthusiastic about the future of IT, software testing, and AI’s place in it!
Business Challenges of Testing B.U.C.K.E.Y.E.D. – A Self-Driving AI Bus System
Description
Updated for 2026! AI is rapidly reshaping Software Quality Assurance and Testing—creating new expectations, risks, and business challenges, especially as organizations begin confronting the complexity of testing strong AI systems.
In this dynamic, interactive session, attendees will examine how AI is impacting QA and software testing from the perspective of developers, test engineers, managers, executives, and business owners. Using a realistic but fictitious scenario, participants will serve as members of the Checkpoint Technologies Executive IT Team after being awarded a contract by Imaginary Corporation to test B.U.C.K.E.Y.E.D. — Bus Using Cognitive Knowledge, Engineered to Yield Efficient Driving — a fully autonomous, AI-powered self-driving bus system developed for the state of Ohio.
Because the system uses strong AI, with advanced autonomous reasoning, learning, and adaptability, the testing effort presents uniquely complex and high-stakes challenges. Led by Bob Crews, CEO of Checkpoint Technologies, participants will identify ten primary business testing challenges through the eyes of an IT Executive Board, with the goal of ensuring project success, reducing risk, preventing negligence, and protecting both Checkpoint Technologies and Imaginary Corporation.