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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
Canada Finally Has a National AI Strategy. Experts Hate It (thewalrus.ca)
28 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-strategy
What I Don’t See When I’m Envious (www.mooreds.com)
28 Jun
Rosie Sherry
envy
career
Evaluations Are the Real Codebase - part of The Phoenix Architecture series (aicoding.leaflet.pub)
27 Jun
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
agentic
WCAG 3.0 Will Create a Governance Problem Most Organizations Aren't Ready For (nicolas-steenhout.com)
26 Jun
Ady Stokes
wcag
a11y
Agentic AI with Browser-Use (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
26 Jun
Simon Tomes
agentic-ai
wsl
Unit Test Helper with Azure DevOps MCP (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
26 Jun
Simon Tomes
azure-devops-mcp
unit-testing
What Is Shift-Left Testing? And Why Most Teams Do It Wrong (www.parasoft.com)
26 Jun
Chantal Wauters
shift
left
MoT Meetup – Summer 2026 (azevedorafaela.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
mot-athens
How to safely build trust in AI generated code (www.thequalityduck.co.uk)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
coding-challenges
Flooding the Zone, or Why Cheap Output Isn’t Free (testpappy.wordpress.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
unproductivity
One Second (angryweasel.substack.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
leadership
In five years, everyone will be a product manager (gojko.net)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
product-management
Make AI Boring Again (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
AI and the Declining Cost of Trying (www.kenst.com)
26 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (www.tomshardware.com)
25 Jun
Simon Tomes
ai
ai-risks
I've spent 30 years in recruitment - this is how to get a job (www.bbc.co.uk)
25 Jun
Simon Tomes
recruitment
hiring
The logical destination of LLMs (bell.bz)
25 Jun
Simon Tomes
llms
ai-scepticism
Rebalancing Software Defect Datasets via Mutation: Performance Insights From Prediction Models Based on Software Measures (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
24 Jun
Rosie Sherry
mutation
bugs
Testing is Beautiful (qualityremarks.com)
24 Jun
Rosie Sherry
software-testing
When AI Hallucinates Its Own Hallucinations (testerstories.com)
24 Jun
Rosie Sherry
ai
hallucination
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