Oleksandr Romanov

Senior Software Engineer in Test

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14+ years in testing and engineering | Co-host at Testing Minutes podcast | Writing and podcasting about test engineering, performance, AI, blockchain, and distributed systems | Views are my own

🎂 MoTaBirthday | March 17, 2017

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Moments (20)

Guardrails and evals are not scary!

Listening to Maneesh talk about guardrails and evals at the AI Chapter event. My insight is that a guardrail is a ... text, and evals are like a JSON that validates a JSON schema. 

23 Sep

First MoT Chapter to have 4 digit members

Join us today. We have a lot of exciting events coming up for you. 📅 23 Sep: Maneesh Madalla: Guardrails & Evals: keeping your AI skills honest.📅 22 Oct: Naveen Khunteta, Naveen AutomationLab...

22 Sep

Testing isn't only the end-to-end level

And it isn't even ... at the unit-test level of your application. Testing doesn't stop there!Today's complex systems, with all this artificial intelligence inside, are built on components that are...

10 Sep

Fundamental knowledge matters more than ever

Today, I came across a very useful video about modern development with AI by Matt Pocock. The main ideas are below. 🧪 Development and AI In an ideal world, we write a spec and then implement it in ...

9 Sep

Insights (4)

Stop studying, start learning: How to stay focused in the world of shiny tools

Chaotic learning is not the best option

4 Jun

What's the hardest part of defining "expected behaviour" for a system that produces different output every time?

When a system improvises like a jazz soloist, "different" stops meaning "wrong"

3 Jun

Sessions (18)

From ad-hoc prompting to Agentic Engineering: Latest trends in AI

Learn how software engineering is shifting from basic prompt engineering to autonomous AI agents and intent-based workflows.

16 Jul

Hot take: AI stops the community from discussing exploratory testing and more - Ep 141

A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.

3 Jul

Glossary Terms (3)

Metamorphic testing It's hard to determine how a change in the input value will take effect on the output value. Here comes the metamorphic testing. It's hard to find out whether this value is correct or just an example of hallucination. Test Everything Twice (TET) A playful backronym coined live in the TWiQ chat as a testing-world companion to the DRY/WET family of terms, standing for "Test Everything Twice." as a counterpart to WET (Write Everything Twice), it captures the idea of deliberate, thorough verification rather than assuming a single test pass is sufficient. Like WET and DRY, it works best as a conversational shorthand for a mindset rather than a strict rule. Ikigai Ikigai (生き甲斐, lit. 'a reason for being') is a Japanese concept of an individual's definition of the meaning of their life.Héctor García and Francesc Miralles included a Venn diagram of Ikigai in their book: "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life". This diagram includes four elements: what a person likes, what a person is good at, what the world needs, and what can be rewarded. When these four elements overlap, that person has found their ikigai.

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