This was updated in June 2025. It has been quite some time since I last updated my Periodic Table of Testing. The 10th of December 2018, to be exact. Creating a more accessible version of the table...

A panel discussion exploring how AI gains in silos can break feedback loops, shift bottlenecks downstream, and make quality harder to manage at scale.

Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read my moment. If you have any comments, feedback, or questions, I'm eager to hear them, so please get in touch.  The primary reason for sharing is t...

Lisa Crispin linked Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki over on the MoT Slack. The idea: instead of re-reading raw sources every time you have a question, you let an LLM maintain a compounding, cross-linked...

Similar to software composition analysis, Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools scan source code before it runs and without executing it (“white-box testing”).SAST scanners search for “dangerous” patterns, that match security flaws, for example SQL injections, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and hardcoded API keys/credentials. SAST tools are most effective when they are used, and their output applied before code is merged.

Running a root cause analysis only addresses half of the problem. Instead of asking, why did we miss this. Ask, why didn’t we think of this?  Fixing a process or writing a missing automat...