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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE? (www.linkedin.com)
13 Jul
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
continuous-improvement
Stop The Tester’s Inferiority Complex: QA and Dev Are Equals (medium.com)
13 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
tester
developer
Coding Is No Longer the Constraint (engineering.atspotify.com)
13 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
spotify
coding
Test accessibility without being an expert Spotify (open.spotify.com)
12 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Test accessibility without being an expert YouTube (m.youtube.com)
12 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Metric Semantic Layer: How Lyft Governs and Scales Key Data Definitions (eng.lyft.com)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
data
Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
local-models
ai-models
US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree (arstechnica.com)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
hacks-in-the-wild
signal
Bring Back Crappy Forums (tedium.co)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
forums
community-building
6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week (github.blog)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
security
github
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs (techcrunch.com)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
openai
ai
What Was Matt Thinking? (tedium.co)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
forums
security
Who decides when AI is too dangerous? (www.theverge.com)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai-risk
ai
The Real ROI of Developer Communities (yuriilazaruk.substack.com)
12 Jul
Rosie Sherry
devrel
hackathon
Destructive Command Guard (github.com)
11 Jul
Giorgos Siamantas
agentic-ai
agentic-coding
Quality Assurance Agent: Reimagining Software Quality with AI-Driven Autonomous Testing (www.linkedin.com)
11 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
ai-agents
agentic-ai
AI Will Replace Testers. Just Like Automation Did. And Codeless Tools Did. Any Day Now. (medium.com)
11 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
coding
programming
Quality Isn’t an Activity… It’s a System! (danashby.co.uk)
11 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
quality
quality-engineering
Overcoming Toxic Leadership: Real Stories (bugzandhugz.wordpress.com)
10 Jul
Gary Hawkes
mental-strength
corporate-culture
The accessibility guy blog (theaccessibilityguy.com)
10 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How Do We Differentiate Between Being Disabled and Our Insufficient Abilities? (createadaptablelife.com)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
accessibility
disability
Test Pyramid for AI Agents (angiejones.tech)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
test-pyramid
ai-test-pyramid
Have you heard? Clickhouse is winning the observability wars! (charity.wtf)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
observability
clickhouse
Loop Engineering for Hierarchical Retrieval: Reading a Long Document by Its Table of Contents (towardsdatascience.com)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
loop-engineering
agentic-ai
AI is ready. Your APIs probably aren’t. (blog.postman.com)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
postman
api
Why You Believe What You Believe (angryweasel.substack.com)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
leadership
A fearless approach to QA and web accessibility (www.mightyacorn.com)
10 Jul
Rosie Sherry
accessibility
compliance
Building AI Companions that Prioritise Learning over Performance (arxiv.org)
10 Jul
Sarah Deery
ai
ai-learning
What an AI-Enabled Engineering Organisation Looks Like When It Is Working (robonsoftware.substack.com)
09 Jul
Gary Hawkes
ai-leadership
ai
Quality Blether S04 EP02 - Career Changers in to Quality Engineering (shows.acast.com)
09 Jul
Ady Stokes
career-guidance
podcast
The Enterprise Guide to Evaluating AI Code Quality Platforms (hackernoon.com)
09 Jul
Simon Tomes
ai-code-quality
enterprise-ai
The anatomy of a Three Amigos Requirements Discovery workshop (johnfergusonsmart.com)
08 Jul
Melissa Fisher
3-amigos
Using Triforce to define Acceptance Criteria (cakehurstryan.com)
08 Jul
Simon Tomes
triforce
3-amigos
3A – Arrange, Act, Assert (xp123.com)
08 Jul
Simon Tomes
unit-test-automation
aaa
The Arrange, Act, and Assert (AAA) Pattern in Unit Test Automation (semaphore.io)
08 Jul
Simon Tomes
unit-test-automation
aaa
How to Bring AI Regression Testing Into Enterprise Workflows (www.parasoft.com)
08 Jul
Chantal Wauters
ai
regression-testing
Life at the end of the metaverse (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
07 Jul
Simon Tomes
metaverse
meta
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method (www.rfc-editor.org)
07 Jul
Cassandra H. Leung
api
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox in 'significant restructure' (www.bbc.co.uk)
06 Jul
Simon Tomes
microsoft
layoffs
First look: Agents are coming to your favorite SmartBear products (smartbear.com)
06 Jul
Rosie Sherry
agentic-testing
agentic-quality
How do gardening and dishwashers link to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
06 Jul
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
resilience
The Mantra Dashboard (pointc.co)
05 Jul
Rosie Sherry
leadership
Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults (arstechnica.com)
05 Jul
Rosie Sherry
security
hacks-in-the-wild
How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS (blog.cloudflare.com)
04 Jul
Rosie Sherry
bugs
leap-second
Agentic Autonomy Levels - A working model of autonomy for agentic engineering by Addy Osmani (addyo.substack.com)
04 Jul
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
llm
What Is API Mocking & How Does It Work? (www.parasoft.com)
03 Jul
Chantal Wauters
mocking
api
Beyond the test case: 5 Insights from Elisabeth Hendrickson’s ‘Explore It!’ (testengineeringnotes.com)
03 Jul
Oleksandr Romanov
exploratory-testing
book
Yes you can run exploratory testing with ai (cakehurstryan.com)
02 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai-exploratory-testing
ai
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Agentic AI (www.alphaxiv.org)
02 Jul
Dragan Spiridonov
llm
rag
Orchestrating AI-Native Testing with Playwright - C2 (Cost involved) (www.eventbrite.co.uk)
01 Jul
Ady Stokes
playwright
ai
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