Paul Turchinetz
Software Engineer and Tester
About
Paul Turchinetz is a software engineer and tester with a decade of experience as an SDET. He has a passion for automating everything he can, and investigating everything he can't. Paul is passionate about the art of bridging gaps - whether that’s in code, processes, or collaboration.
Rolling the Dice
Description
One of the hardest challenges in Quality Assurance is deciding when a release is ready. All software has bugs, but was that strange behavior you observed in testing just a fluke, or a sign of something catastrophic?
This talk introduces a practical risk assessment framework built around “rolling the dice” on quality. Each situation is modeled as a die, and each potential outcome as one of its faces. This mental model helps attendees visualize uncertainty, understand the range of possibilities, and evaluate the stability of their releases.
Attendees will learn to identify sources of chaos in their products and focus their testing efforts on high-impact risks, removing negative outcomes from their dice and increasing the odds of a successful release.