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NEWS
AI in Testing #1: From Hype to Habits (How Testing Wins in 2026)
In this four-part overview, Andrii Cheparskyi shares some good, practical advice on how to effectively use AI in testing. You can read more about ChatGPT & Claude Features, the AI IDEs and MCP for testers.
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Everyone is NOT Responsible for Quality
The notion of everyone being responsible for quality has been widely popularised in agile. But James Bach challenges it, recommending replacing it with personal responsibility and clear roles.
Moreover, Julia Kocbek shares interesting thoughts on How to solve dilemmas as QA.
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How I Transitioned from Traditional QA to AI-Assisted QA (And What I Actually Use Daily)
AI is here to help us and we need to learn how to use it effectively. Medhani Ranaweera points out several areas in which she found it helpful.
And if you're one of the late adopters, you may resonate with Dennis Martinez's experience of going through My Five Stages of AI Grief.
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Quality Debt: The Hidden Cost That Outgrows Technical Debt
Arik Aharoni explains how testing gaps accumulate over time and can hurt in the long term. It's a good reminder to regularly review test debt and risks.
In that context, Jitesh Gosai tells us how we can leverage Learning from failure: spikes, POCs, prototypes and MVPs.
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When you outsource testing to the AI, you lose the ability to understand your system
Well said and reasoned, Patrick Prill! While AI can help us with some tasks, we shouldn't let it completely loose and detach too much from what it's doing.
Similarly, Katja Obring wrote about the importance of treating Review as analysis, not authority, when working with AI.
And all this makes people wonder — Is manual QA making a comeback due to AI?
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AUTOMATION
From 380 to 700+ Tests: How We Built an Autonomous QA Team with Claude Code
Shrinath Rao shares a high-level overview of their agentic AI approach to test automation. I only wish we could see some examples of that, too!
At the same time, Bart Vanherck points out Why AI won't save your Flaky Tests.
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How I learned to trust synthetic data in performance testing
Sometimes, test data is as important as the test design itself. Sudhakar Reddy Narra gives several tips on how to approach synthetic test data generation and what to be mindful of.
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Testing Error Boundaries by Breaking Contracts, Not Code
One common gap in automation is partial failures. Irfan Mujagić shows examples of simulating contract violations to check whether the rest of the app still works.
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The case for running E2E tests against stable branches
Want less noise from flaky suites? Rodrigo Alves Costa explains why you should focus on fast unit and integration feedback early and run broader system tests only after merging into the main branch.
However, Amrinder Singh Mallhi worryingly notices The Lost Art of Dry Running in today's software development.
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TOOLS
Appium 3.x Manifesto: Installation, Driver Management, and Architectural Compatibility
Appium has recently upgraded to version 3+ and Hakan Tektaş describes all the changes and requirements for migration.
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How I Used Rovo AI in Jira to Level Up Software Testing
Now that Jira and Confluence have Rovo AI built in, there's an opportunity to use it for improving software testing processes. Parul Kaushik explains the potential use cases.
Also, wondering whether it's worth Using Claude code to understand code before testing?
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Implementing MCP load tests with Grafana k6
Hrvoje Milković describes how they approached and what they learned from load testing an MCP server using k6.
And if you want to learn more, Millan Kaul gives a quick recap — What is MCP?
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Using agent skills to write Playwright tests
There's a lot we can learn from Tim Lolkema's approach to setting up AI agent workflows for generating Playwright tests.
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Why Test Case Management Systems Still Matter
One of the topics that often yields different opinions within the testing community is test case management. Is it needed? Here's what Brad DerManouelian thinks about it.
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VIDEOS
What Is Testing? A Conversation with James Bach and Michael Bolton
I don't think an introduction is required for this one. Just tune in and enjoy a fine conversation about the essence of testing between the testing legends — James Bach and Michael Bolton — invited by Alex Khvastovich.
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