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NEWS
AI Is Doing the Testing Now
It's hard to disagree with Brijesh Deb who points out that although it's easier to broaden the test coverage now, it can't replace human judgment and mitigate risks quite as well.
Moreover, Betty Lin continues the great series of articles on QA Meets AI (Part 5): Correctness and Judgment Are Not the Same Thing.
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QA's Bottleneck Just Moved. Most Teams Haven't Noticed.
A thoughtful observation from James Kip on how we should approach testing, proposing a split where we own the behavioural acceptance criteria while AI owns the technical implementation.
Similarly, Elizabeth Rubino shares how QA Is Evolving — And Tests Aren't the Point.
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So you want to be an SDET
Kevin Roe makes a good point. Don't become a software engineer who happens to test — become a tester who happens to code. Kevin also wrote a good follow-up defining The Ideal Team SDET.
Moreover, Marina Jordão warns about Why QAs Who Only Automate Stop Growing.
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The Test Manager's Guide: From Chaos to Predictable Quality
Abdul Osman started an insightful series of articles advising test managers and leaders on how to approach testing and quality. You can already read the following parts two, three and four.
Similarly, Joshua Bihun shares some thoughts on What to Document First When You’re Building or Inheriting a QA Practice.
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What Good Governance Actually Looks Like
Simon Prior has been on a streak of writing great articles recently and this one is no exception. This time, it's about solid principles for practical AI governance.
In relation to that, Andrii Lysenko rightly points out The QA work AI can't do.
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What Makes Good Context For AI-Generated Tests?
If you want AI to do a more accurate job for test generation, follow Puja Jagani's advice on how to properly provide it with the relevant information.
At the same time, Sachin Koirala describes The Intent Gap: How We Learned to Ship Fast and Forget Everything.
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AUTOMATION
I Built a Multi-Agent QA Documentation System with Claude Code — Here's What I Actually Learned
If you want to learn how to create an Ai solution that turns Jira tickets into a full test plan, check out Heramb Bhor's reflection on what worked and what didn't.
In relation to that, Brad DerManouelian shares interesting thoughts on Why Your Test Scripts Don't Belong in Your Test Case Management Tool.
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The Philosophy of Automated Tests: Management, Maintenance and Flakiness
Ever wondered how others handle flaky tests? Vladimir Smirnov describes how their team at Exante does it at scale by sorting failures by priority and keeping a regression test suite healthy.
Moreover, Kevin Roe shares a story on why Most Test Frameworks Are Over-Engineered
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Where Goal-Based Agentic Testing Sits in the Mobile Automation Pyramid
Thinking of adding AI agents to your mobile test setup? Russell Morley put together a good guide on how to make it work with existing test layers.
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Your Load Test Passed. Your Server Crashed. Here's Why (Little's Law Fix Inside)
It's easy to add load tests, but it's not easy to design them right. Jenish Patel gives tons of practical tips on numbers that matter and what to consider in users' behaviour.
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TOOLS
A Comprehensive Guide to Benchmarking LLMs with AWS Labs’ LLMeter
How would you test LLM-based apps for performance? NaveenKumar Namachivayam wrote a handy guide to AWS's LLMeter, showing how to set up experiments, run multi-client load tests and build a live dashboard for cost-tracking.
Talking about testing LLMs, Fidaa Berrjeb shares an interesting story of how they approached Testing a GenAI voice assistant.
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Claude Code Hooks as a Test Quality Gate
Sometimes your test may contain hardcoded waits and missing assertions. Irfan Mujagić demonstrates simple shell hooks for Claude Code that flag these issues as soon as they save the test file.
Moreover, Mukta Agarwal shares examples from personal experience on How I Use Claude Skills for QA tasks.
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How I Debug Appium Test Failures Without Inspector
Testing mobile apps with Appium? Josphine Job shares a few tips on debugging issues, followed by an explanation of Why Appium Scroll Fails Across Device Sizes.
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Playwright Sharding and Docker: How I Cut My Test Suite from 47 Minutes to 8 Minutes
If you want to cut the execution time of your Playwright tests, Pramod Dutta wrote a step-by-step guide on splitting a 312-test Playwright suite into shards running in Docker.
This is followed by another insightful article describing Why Most Self-Healing Implementations Fail in Production.
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The Cypress i18n Mistake: Testing Words Instead of Meaning — i18next is your partner
If you're testing apps that support many languages, Sebastian Clavijo Suero advises using stable selectors alongside i18next keys to reliably verify translated messages.
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VIDEOS
How I use Notebook LM for Software Testing and more
In this 17-minute video, Daniel Knott demonstrates handy use cases for Google's NotebookLM in QA-related work that's especially good at processing a lot of information.
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Question Hospital: Testing and AI #1
With AI now fully embedded in software development work, many of us wonder about its use cases and impact in testing. That's why James Bach, Jon Bach and Michael Bolton came together to answer the testing community's questions and recorded an insightful, one-hour discussion.
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