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Are you using AI? Do not forget your whip (skyecleary.substack.com)
20 Aug
Simon Tomes
ai-scepticism
critical-thinking
Interesting idea of "signal engineering" as a non-deterministic approach to testing (softwaresignalengineering.org)
20 Aug
Lisa Crispin
ai-automation
test-automation-tool
Accessibility Game Theory: Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled) (www.linkedin.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How to test colour contrast: There's more to it than you think. (wonderproxy.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
TestMu Conf 26 is live now (might work for recordings) (app.zuddl.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
conference
ai
Testing Times 19th of August 2026 (www.linkedin.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
testing
news
How does the eclipse relate to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
18 Aug
Deborah Reid
continuous-learning
automation
Sainsbury's branch halts AI use as shopper ejected (www.bbc.co.uk)
17 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
How to Use AI With Your Brain (thinkingtester.com)
17 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-thinking
Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow (hackernoon.com)
17 Aug
Simon Tomes
claude-code
claude
Cyberattacks expose U.S. water vulnerabilities (www.axios.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
cyber-attack
security
The Bechdel Test for Building a Real Developer Community (hackernoon.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
devrel
What It Really Means to Be a 10x DevRel (hackernoon.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
devrel
Beads: A Git-Friendly Issue Tracker for AI Coding Agents (betterstack.com)
14 Aug
Simon Tomes
beads
ai-coding-agents
SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (youtu.be)
14 Aug
Emily O'Connor
sqlite
talk
Testing authentication "unhappy paths" using a mock (wonderproxy.com)
14 Aug
Ady Stokes
authentication
mocking
How we tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
14 Aug
Emily O'Connor
bug
bugs-in-the-wild
The War of Art (stevenpressfield.com)
14 Aug
Simon Tomes
book
imposter-syndrome
Best Service Virtualization Tools for Enterprise Testing (www.parasoft.com)
14 Aug
Chantal Wauters
service-virtualization
api
Why the best companies are investing in Quality Engineers, not just all out AI (www.linkedin.com)
14 Aug
Ady Stokes
quality-engineering
ai
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)
14 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
From Blame to Resilience: Why High-Performing Teams Run Blameless Retrospectives (womenintesting.beehiiv.com)
13 Aug
Simon Tomes
retrospectives
high-performing-teams
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident (youtu.be)
13 Aug
Giorgos Siamantas
ai
ai-security
Hooked on Webhooks for Email content (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
13 Aug
Justin Holsgrove
email
email-testing
Desktop Automation: TestLeft with SmartBear (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
13 Aug
Justin Holsgrove
desktop-application-test-automation
desktop
The one community word to outshine all others (simontomes.com)
13 Aug
Simon Tomes
gratitude
gratitude-practice
A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)
12 Aug
Rosie Sherry
security
email-testing
AI Learning Plan for Testers (Free Resources Only) (testingtitbits.com)
12 Aug
Rahul Parwal
ai-roadmap
A11y Innovators Edition 2 (www.linkedin.com)
12 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Testing Times August Newsletter (www.linkedin.com)
12 Aug
Ady Stokes
testing
news
5 big ideas from "Test Automation Fundamentals" book (testengineeringnotes.com)
12 Aug
Oleksandr Romanov
test-automation
book
What a Difference a Year Makes (theproductmindedqa.com)
12 Aug
Susanne Abdelrahman
mot
We Keep Patching Test Automation. Should We Rebuild & Reinvent It Instead? (chathuranga.space)
11 Aug
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
playwright
selenium
Angie Jones: AI and QEs, hiring thoughts (www.linkedin.com)
11 Aug
Ady Stokes
ai
jobs
Self-Healing Tests with AI: Triage Before Repair (www.awesome-testing.com)
11 Aug
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
ai
self-healing
Playwright Quest (www.playwrightquest.com)
11 Aug
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
playwright
automation
Organise teams around value, then keep testing the boundaries (robonsoftware.substack.com)
11 Aug
Gary Hawkes
team-building
engineering-leadership
The 3 product battles 84% of EMs lose (www.manager.dev)
10 Aug
Simon Tomes
engineering-management
engineering-managers
How does resting this weekend link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
10 Aug
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
rest-is-productive
ailments - a field guide to potential AI-induced cognitive-behavioural disorders (informationisbeautiful.net)
10 Aug
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
ai-psychosis
The agentic coding ladder is a list of things you give up - by Jed Arden (jedarden.com)
10 Aug
Dragan Spiridonov
agentic
coding
Agentic Code Quality Quality now depends on the constraints you set around your agents. - by Addy Osmani (addyo.substack.com)
08 Aug
Dragan Spiridonov
agentic
agentic-qe
How a 90-second power outage sparked chaos for rail commuters (www.bbc.co.uk)
07 Aug
Rosie Sherry
risks-in-the-wild
Test Data Three Ways (qahiccupps.blogspot.com)
07 Aug
Rosie Sherry
test-data
How We Test an AI Product Without Burning Credit (theaiplatform.app)
07 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-tokens
testing
A month after being laid off (g33klady.com)
07 Aug
Rosie Sherry
layoffs
Your AI agent doesn't care how you write acceptance criteria. Here's the experiment that proves it. (www.linkedin.com)
07 Aug
Cassandra H. Leung
ai
artifical-intelligence
The Second Law of Software Delivery (reframequality.com)
07 Aug
Rosie Sherry
software-delivery
More about the testing, less about testers (www.o2sn.dk)
07 Aug
Rosie Sherry
shift-left
testing
From Skills and Tools to Portable Agent Plugins (aaif.io)
06 Aug
Simon Tomes
agent-plugins
skills
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