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James Bach, Founder and CEO of Satisfice, Inc.

Dedicated to teaching and consulting in software testing and quality analysis, Satisfice, Inc. is a family business run by James and Lenore Bach.

Hi, I'm James Bach. I specialize in software testing. I teach, coach, consult, and write about it as a skilled craft. I am part of a community called the Context-Driven School, and this website is a partial library of my research and thinking about testing. The methodology I created is called Rapid Software Testing.

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I have been testing software and consulting for 32 years. Clients generally ask me to help evaluate or develop their testing culture and practices. I have also served as an expert witness in court cases that relate to software.

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My classes are set up to provoke independent and even contrarian thinking. They are partly experiential. Each class is an exploration of my notes as a student of testing. This is an exciting subject for me, and my goal is to share that excitement with you.

Posts about Rapid Software Testing Methodology

Augmented Experiential Testing

20 June 2024 By James Bach

What Classes Should I Schedule?

20 June 2024 By James Bach

34 Years in Testing

23 May 2021 By James Bach

Tricentis Called. Now We’ll See.

11 June 2020 By James Bach

Bug Pipeline Reaction: Paul Szymkowiak and How Context-Driven Thinkers Talk

1 March 2020 By James Bach

Unclogging the Bug Pipeline

26 February 2020 By James Bach

Assess Quality, Don’t Measure It

13 December 2019 By James Bach

To What Have I Been Up?

6 December 2019 By James Bach

Rethinking Equivalence Class Partitioning, Part 1

27 November 2016 By James Bach

We. Use. Tools.

31 January 2016 By James Bach

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