> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://softwaretestingweekly.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Issue #332 - URL: https://softwaretestingweekly.com/issues/332/ - Published: 2026-10-26T18:43:43.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-26T18:44:11.000Z - Description: State of Developer Experience 2026 📊 - Author: Dawid Dylowicz | Comment | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Welcome to the **332nd** issue!Atlassian just published [The State of Developer Experience in 2026](https://dam-cdn.atl.orangelogic.com/CDNLink/AT12P1R5.pdf?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).It's a survey of 1,500+ developers and engineering leaders. Most of it is about AI strategy but a few numbers stood out to me:73% say AI-driven speed can come at a cost to quality,65% spend time correcting AI-generated work that missed the original intent,and the biggest shift in the dev role: 41% now have more responsibility for validating the quality and safety of AI output.And in separate data from 500+ companies, confidence in changes dropped by 6% in just one quarter.So developers do **more** verification and testing, but they trust the code they push to production **less**.Interesting times.Happy testing! 🙂*[Dawid Dylowicz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-dylowicz/?ref=softwaretestingweekly.com)* | | | | News | | [A Note on Spec-Driven Development](https://masoudbahrami.com/article/a-note-on-spec-driven-development/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Want to do spec-driven development with AI agents? [Masoud Bahrami](https://www.linkedin.com/in/masoud-bahrami/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) has some tips on how to approach it the right way, so that it doesn't drift too much.Additionally, [Josphine Job](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josphine-j-qalead/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) tells us more on [Why QA Experience Is an Unexpected Advantage in Spec-Driven Development](https://code.likeagirl.io/why-qa-experience-is-an-unexpected-advantage-in-spec-driven-development-19c1f17e023e?sk=4536e2f4366a980e052237bef085406e&utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332), while [Gal Arav](https://www.linkedin.com/in/galarav/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) continues the topic of [Towards Spec-Driven Test Automation: Part 2](https://towardsdatascience.com/towards-spec-driven-test-automation-part-2/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[masoudbahrami.com](https://masoudbahrami.com/article/a-note-on-spec-driven-development/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Agentic Engineering: Bringing Roles Together](https://anilcangul.medium.com/agentic-engineering-bringing-roles-together-8c11fcd11700?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[Anılcan GĂŒl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/an%C4%B1lcang%C3%BCl/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) shares how they merged tester and developer roles once AI agents made testing the bottleneck. Developers now test their own changes, with pair testing for the risky ones.Also, [Jean-François Marquis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfmarquis/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) has a similar story from another company: [From Tester to Trust Arbiter: Our Experience with QA in the Agentic Engineering Era at ADEO](https://medium.com/adeo-tech/from-tester-to-trust-arbiter-our-experience-with-qa-in-the-agentic-engineering-era-at-adeo-7e83695597d5?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[anilcangul.medium.com](https://anilcangul.medium.com/agentic-engineering-bringing-roles-together-8c11fcd11700?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Borrowed Plausibility](https://testerstories.com/2026/10/borrowed-plausibility/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)A good reminder from [Jeff Nyman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnyman/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) on how AI-assisted development creates comprehension and cognitive debt, and how testing shows where our confidence isn't backed by evidence.At the same time, [Vineet Verma](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineetvermaqa/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) points out that [AI can write tests from a user story. It can't tell you the story is wrong](https://medium.com/@vineetverma%5F96127/ai-can-write-tests-from-a-user-story-it-cant-tell-you-the-story-is-wrong-03b32a83bff0?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332), while [Bob Chen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-chen-98aa58176/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) has a good reminder that [The Requirement Is Not the Ticket. It's Everything Around It](https://medium.com/@bob148666/the-requirement-is-not-the-ticket-its-everything-around-it-0ba90a907e2f?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[testerstories.com](https://testerstories.com/2026/10/borrowed-plausibility/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [How I Cut QA Out of the Deploy-Time Critical Path](https://medium.com/a-a-brothers/from-blocked-to-confident-how-i-cut-qa-out-of-the-deploy-time-critical-path-8007cef02897?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)This is useful. You know that feeling whenever the pipeline fails and devs ask you to debug it? [Mohamad Andika Bhaskara](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamad-andika-bhaskara/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) shares how their internal LLM now sorts each failure in the pipeline.Similarly, [Julia Pottinger](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-pottinger/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) gives a practical example of [From Bug Report to Beta Build: A QA Release Workflow](https://juliapottinger.com/from-bug-report-to-beta-build-practical-qa-release-workflow/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[medium.com](https://medium.com/a-a-brothers/from-blocked-to-confident-how-i-cut-qa-out-of-the-deploy-time-critical-path-8007cef02897?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Will AI Replace QA Engineers? What Is Actually Changing](https://medium.com/@michael-brown-/will-ai-replace-qa-engineers-what-is-actually-changing-fb3f603aceb9?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)It actually may not be the right question. [Michael Brown](https://medium.com/@michael-brown-?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) splits testers' work into four zones and shows which tasks AI already does and which need a tester.Additionally, [Ömer Yusuf](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omeryusufsorhun/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) gives a similar view on why [AI Won't Replace Your Testing Mindset: How QA Engineers Should Use AI](https://medium.com/@omeryusufsorhun/ai-wont-replace-your-testing-mindset-how-qa-engineers-should-use-ai-146b41e4733e?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[medium.com](https://medium.com/@michael-brown-/will-ai-replace-qa-engineers-what-is-actually-changing-fb3f603aceb9?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | | | Automation | | [After Test Automation: moving the bottleneck with Agentic Triage](https://medium.com/@bavo.bruylandt/after-automation-moving-the-bottleneck-with-agentic-triage-abdad13c21fd?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Test automation doesn't remove the bottleneck but it moves it to reading the results. [Bavo Bruylandt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bavobruylandt/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) describes how their AI agent ranks the failures overnight, followed by the second part about [Building Agentic Test Triage](https://medium.com/@bavo.bruylandt/skill-agent-script-building-agentic-test-triage-f7aa0ae9692f?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[medium.com](https://medium.com/@bavo.bruylandt/after-automation-moving-the-bottleneck-with-agentic-triage-abdad13c21fd?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Has anyone successfully implemented AI to write automated E2E tests?](https://www.reddit.com/r/QualityAssurance/comments/1x4qqoc/has%5Fanyone%5Fsuccessfully%5Fimplemented%5Fai%5Fto%5Fwrite/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Someone on Reddit asked the testing community for advice on implementing AI-driven automation and, (un)surprisingly, most people agree that AI coding assistants helped them achieve better results.However, [Niklas Gruhn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-gruhn-b615a6245/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) from Anthropic warns about [Atrocious AI-written tests](https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-09-29/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/QualityAssurance/comments/1x4qqoc/has%5Fanyone%5Fsuccessfully%5Fimplemented%5Fai%5Fto%5Fwrite/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Hooks for AI Are Software Too. Where Are Their Tests?](https://medium.com/@marinapolkovnikova1990/hooks-for-ai-are-software-too-where-are-their-tests-ac38522946ca?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)If you want to let an AI agent push code or approve pull requests, you'll want to read this. [Marina Polkovnikova](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-polkovnikova-38471618b/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) gives practical ways to test the hooks that block it, including tests for prompt injection.Furthermore, [Amruta Lohabare](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amruta-lohabare-82017046/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) reminds us that [AI Tests a Moment. Your Users Live in Time.](https://medium.com/@amrutalohabare/ai-tests-a-moment-your-users-live-in-time-28c59bbaf8bb?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[medium.com](https://medium.com/@marinapolkovnikova1990/hooks-for-ai-are-software-too-where-are-their-tests-ac38522946ca?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Reviewing the Tests an Agent Wrote: Loosened Assertions, Frozen Bugs and Mutation Score](https://fantasybz.medium.com/green-is-not-done-part-1-reviewing-the-tests-an-agent-wrote-loosened-assertions-frozen-bugs-51d001a6dcd5?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[Kochi Chuang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kochi-chuang/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) describes how to review tests written by an AI agent, suggesting mutation testing and a checklist of ten questions instead, followed up by [the second part](https://fantasybz.medium.com/green-is-not-done-part-2-review-is-the-control-point-not-the-bottleneck-triage-reviewer-4d36d0f2f9c1?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).Speaking of that, [Mariya Ushakova](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariyaushakova/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) asks: [Your AI-Generated Test Passes. Who Decided the Expected Result?](https://mariya-ushakova.medium.com/your-ai-generated-test-passes-who-decided-the-expected-result-af5269fcd884?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[fantasybz.medium.com](https://fantasybz.medium.com/green-is-not-done-part-1-reviewing-the-tests-an-agent-wrote-loosened-assertions-frozen-bugs-51d001a6dcd5?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Agentic Verification](https://addyo.substack.com/p/agentic-verification?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Checking the code that agents write is now the new bottleneck. [Addy Osmani⁠](https://www.linkedin.com/in/addyosmani/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) describes how E2E, property-based and differential tests let the agent check its own work before we review it.In relation to that, [Tim Lolkema](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlolkema/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) tells us more on [Why you should start using agentic testing](https://tlolkema.substack.com/p/why-you-should-start-using-agentic?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[addyo.substack.com](https://addyo.substack.com/p/agentic-verification?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | | | Tools | | [Building a Test Automation Platform with Maestro for Android and iOS](https://medium.com/beyond-localhost/building-a-test-automation-platform-with-maestro-for-android-and-ios-f3a004d67ced?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Want to test Android and iOS apps with [Maestro](https://maestro.dev/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)? [Ravi Rawal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-rawal-13/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) shares how to keep the test suite stable and easy to debug as it grows.[medium.com](https://medium.com/beyond-localhost/building-a-test-automation-platform-with-maestro-for-android-and-ios-f3a004d67ced?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [I Let an AI Agent Build My API Test Collections. Here's the Setup That Made It Actually Work.](https://medium.com/@khan.aatif2807/i-let-an-ai-agent-build-my-api-test-collections-heres-the-setup-that-made-it-actually-work-751678bb01f6?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Thinking about letting an AI agent write your API tests? [Mohd Aatif Khan](https://medium.com/@khan.aatif2807?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) gives the rules they had to teach the agents, such as one ID variable per resource and 204 for void endpoints.[medium.com](https://medium.com/@khan.aatif2807/i-let-an-ai-agent-build-my-api-test-collections-heres-the-setup-that-made-it-actually-work-751678bb01f6?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Introducing Optics: create a test your way, run it forever](https://medium.com/@chinmayajha/introducing-optics-create-a-test-your-way-run-it-forever-36cb8e249fb4?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[Chinmay Jha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinmayajha/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) shares [Optics](https://optics-framework.org/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) — an open-source framework where you write tests as CSV or YAML rows and run them on Android, iOS, web and TV.You can find more practical details in the following two articles:[Your AI agent writes the test once. Optics runs it with no model.](https://medium.com/@chinmayajha/your-ai-agent-writes-the-test-once-optics-runs-it-with-no-model-136cd5ac5eed?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[Your tests passed. Your app didn't.](https://medium.com/@chinmayajha/your-tests-passed-your-app-didnt-379163af9b65?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)[medium.com](https://medium.com/@chinmayajha/introducing-optics-create-a-test-your-way-run-it-forever-36cb8e249fb4?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | [Your Website Now Has an API for AI Agents — Here's How to Test It with Playwright WebMCP](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/your-website-now-has-an-api-for-ai-agents-heres-how-to-test-it-with-playwright-webmcp-8f91f6e57715?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)Since web pages can now give AI agents their own set of tools to interact via MCP, [Svetlana Tretjakova](https://www.linkedin.com/in/svetlana-tretjakova-93147b136/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) shares why that needs its own tests and how to write them in [Playwright](https://playwright.dev/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).Moreover, [Vitaliy Potapov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalets/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) describes a way of [Testing browser extensions with playwright-webext](https://vitalets.github.io/posts/browser-extensions/testing-with-playwright-webext/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332).[levelup.gitconnected.com](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/your-website-now-has-an-api-for-ai-agents-heres-how-to-test-it-with-playwright-webmcp-8f91f6e57715?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | | | Videos | | [Vibe Testing Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-mtSIloerk&utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332)In this 14-minute recording, [Kacper Ciepielewski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciepielewski/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) brings up several good arguments on why we should be concerned about vibe testing with AI.[youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-mtSIloerk&utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) | | | | And
 | | [Acceptance criteria...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1x81w55/unplanneddivergence/?utm%5Fsource=softwaretestingweekly&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=issue-332) 😂 | | | | Thanks for reading!If you enjoy this newsletter and find it helpful in becoming a better tester, please consider sharing it with others.*[Dawid Dylowicz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-dylowicz/?ref=softwaretestingweekly.com)* |