Hello and welcome to the DevelopSense Web page! I'm your host, Michael Bolton. I provide consulting, training, coaching, and other services in software testing for companies, teams, and individuals world-wide.

For the last five years, I have been providing training and consulting services in testing and quality to organizations in Canada, the United States, and around the world. In particular, I teach Rapid Software Testing and Rapid Software Testing for Managers, courses that I co-author with James Bach.

We're aligned with the Context-Driven School of Software Testing, a community of people who believe that testing should respond first and foremost to the needs of the organization and the project, rather than to "best practices" that may not be best at all in the given context. You can read more about these ideas here.

You can read about my recent work here. I'm based in Toronto. I'm a citizen of both Canada and the U.S., so I can work easily in either country and around the world.

I'm the Program Chair of TASSQ, The Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.

I maintain a mailing list and a sporadic newsletter. I use the newsletter to publish my articles, to notify my correspondents of upcoming courses, and to provide other useful information on testing. Please join the mailing list by clicking here.

I do a little programming, mostly in Ruby and Perl. In the past, I've worked with Visual Basic C and C++, and I've done extensive work in Excel. I've also done rather a lot of technical writing. You can see samples of this work on this site.

If you (or your company, or your manager, or your employee) need counselling or instruction on software testing, I can help; contact me for details.

If you find errors in these pages, I'd be grateful if you could tell me about them.