On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...

I've never done a proper podcast, yet here I am.20 episodes in.Weekly cadence.Great quality conversations.Catching up with old friends.Making some new ones.100% stepping outside of my comfort zone....

Sometimes the most effective guardrail isn't the most sophisticated one

AI needs guardrails to play by the rules and work better

An exploration of how epistemology underpins quality thinking, helping quality people examine what they know, how they know it, and how that shapes their quality choices.

Partially back from a two month hiatus - apologies this took forever but it never left my backlog!From the original moment: AMA about Epistemology - the practice of testingAdy asked: "Through simil...

Partially back from a two month hiatus - apologies this took forever but it never left my backlog!From the original moment: AMA about Epistemology - the practice of testingDemi asked: "What is the ...

Partially back from a two month hiatus - apologies this took forever but it never left my backlog! From the original moment: AMA about Epistemology - the practice of testingSimon asked: "Can you sh...

Partially back from a two month hiatus - apologies this took forever but it never left my backlog!From the original moment: AMA about Epistemology - the practice of testingAdy asked: "If quality pr...

With SQEC now fully live, the community swaps stories about new roles, flaky tests, accessibility audits, and why shared language, pairing, and “being the duck” can make quality work easier.

QA usually owns the automated tests. When a company mandates a level of automation, QA spends a part of their time growing the number and scope of the automated tests. Over time, maintenance of these tests can become expensive, and most of a QA teams time can be spent maintaining the existing automation while adding all new tests into the automation. This becomes a perpetual treadmill of building test automation that can take time and energy away from other valuable QA tasks such as design and specification review, functional testing, exploratory testing, interactive testing, etc. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place" - The Red Queen, Through the Looking Glass

Master the RICCE framework to transition from manual testing to AI-augmented automation by leveraging structured prompting and the Playwright MCP agent ecosystem.