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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
RoboCon 2027: Online 7-9 April 2027 (www.robocon.io)
01 Jul
Miikka Solmela
robotframework
conference
RoboCon 2027 In-Person: Helsinki 8-12 March 2027 (www.robocon.io)
01 Jul
Miikka Solmela
conference
robotframework
Your Online Robot Framework Workshops: World Wide Workshop Wednesday! (wwww.robotframework.org)
01 Jul
Miikka Solmela
workshop
online
The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool (ohadravid.github.io)
01 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai
communication
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charity.wtf)
30 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
engineering-management
Scaling Mobile E2E Testing with Maestro MCP, Claude Agents, and AI-Powered Traceability (newstoretech.substack.com)
30 Jun
Rosie Sherry
mobile-testing
claude
Zombie Testing: One Behavior at a Time (hackernoon.com)
30 Jun
Simon Tomes
zombie-testing
Loop Engineering's Dirty Secret (hackernoon.com)
30 Jun
Simon Tomes
loop-engineering
test-driven-development
Hidden in plain sight: Hacking permissions through the URL (wonderproxy.com)
30 Jun
Ady Stokes
bug-stories
ui
I asked 47 strangers to hold up their phones. A single camera found 44 of them in four minutes and the misses taught me more than the hits (www.linkedin.com)
30 Jun
Adam Davis
london
ai
Worse is better (blog.ploeh.dk)
29 Jun
Rosie Sherry
worse
better
Trowser = Testing Browser - ET Companion (thetesteye.com)
29 Jun
Rahul Parwal
exploratory-testing
trowser
AI Tools Accelerates Coding, but Not Overall Software Delivery, GitLab Research Finds (www.infoq.com)
29 Jun
Emily O'Connor
ai-code
gitlab
Leadership is proof of transfer, not lost control. (www.ceciliaweckstrom.com)
29 Jun
Jesper Ottosen
leadership
staff-level
The EAA anniversary: Compliance, community, and what’s next (www.deque.com)
29 Jun
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Celebrating my 8 year work anniversary with another link to QE! (www.linkedin.com)
29 Jun
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
work-anniversary
OKF v0.1: Google's New Standard That Makes Agent Memory Testable (www.youtube.com)
29 Jun
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
agentic-ai
ai-agents
The truth about being a manager (sofiakodar.github.io)
28 Jun
Rosie Sherry
engineering-management
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