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SPaMCAST 572 features our interview with Michael Larsen.\xa0 Mr. Larsen and I battled fires, Santa Ana winds, and power cuts to have a great conversation on testability.\xa0 Anyone that has participated in delivering software EVER has wrestled with a discussion of whether a story or requirement can be proved.\xa0 Michael brings fresh and actionable insights into how to assure testability.\xa0\xa0 Michael\u2019s bio Michael Larsen is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with Socialtext/PeopleFluent. Over the past two decades, he has been involved in software testing for a range of products and industries, including network routers & switches, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and client/server, distributed database & web applications. Michael is a Black Belt in the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing, helped start and facilitate the Americas chapter of Weekend Testing, is a former Chair of the Education Special Interest Group with the Association for Software Testing (AST), a lead instructor of the Black Box Software Testing courses through AST, and former Board Member and President of AST. Michael writes the and can be found on Twitter at @mkltesthead. A list of books, articles, papers, and presentations can be seen at . \xa0Re-Read Saturday News In this week\u2019s installment of our re-read of Kahneman, formally introduces the Prospect Theory and talks about the difference between it and the Expected Utility Theory. When doing a little background research, Prospect Theory (part of his research on decision making under uncertainty)contributed to his winning the prize in economics.\xa0 Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of , please buy a copy.\xa0 Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. ,\xa0 It\u2019s time to get reading! The current installment of Re-read Saturday\xa0 -\xa0\xa0 Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 573 will feature our essay on a workflow to prioritize a backlog.\xa0 Items on any backlog proliferate. Product backlogs used in agile and lean development approaches are no different.\xa0 Many outsiders have the mistaken notion that once on the list that that is the end of the story - this is far from the truth! We will also have the return of Gen Hughson with an entry in his column, Form Follows Function.