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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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This episode fired me up with the AI debate. I still believe that today, that our systems thinking has never been more important. I was thinking about this over the weekend.From early on in my Test...
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Do you love / hate AI too?
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During episode 132 we discussed hot takes. One that came up is that testers love the moment they can say "I told you so", but then feel guilty about it.I would like to argue that that is because te...
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A pessimist, optimist and realist continue their previous discussion about writing. Last time around they were talking about writing about something they're enjoying.Pessimist: I'm much more comfor...
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Write about something that worries you
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Not too much. Not too little. Just the right amount of chaos. Pretty please!I just re-connected with Amy Phillips, a long-time friend, whose current role is a Senior Engineering Manager. This was ...
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Really enjoyed listening to your insights (especially talking about AI) on this weeks episode.
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"Great article Stuart. 👏 Keeping this as a reference as I'm in the process of influencing a project team to consider observability as part of their ideation and story definition"
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Integrate monitoring, observability, and alerting into the core quality engineering process to ensure systems are as diagnosable as they are functional
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You did a fantastic job co-hosting TWiQ this week 🙏
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Thank you for bringing your hot take today!!
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We are honoured to have Pranav Pandit join us this year in Brighton, all the way from San Francisco!Pranav will be on the main stage with a talk, where he'll share lessons from scaling a large mobi...
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We're very happy to have Richard Adams joining us in Brighton once again, for a fantastic workshop about RCA (Root Cause Analysis)!RCA is a powerful, yet underused, tool to help us build better qua...
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I LOVED what you were saying about the problems you have with bringing on junior testers and the "go faster" problem. I've been trying to influence those developers to explain, you'll only go as fast as the slowest cog in the machine. I'm seeing devs focus so much on production of code, that they're losing design skills, questioning skills etc. Our testing skills have never been more needed, and its us that are expanding our roles and crossing role boundaries to plug those gaps.
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"Good to read this. I've spent the last ten years taking care of others, so I do knowingly neglect myself. Making this list is something I can do gradually, not to just pat myself on the back - but to help make me more self aware. That should help me mo..."
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Please start making a list of what you are good at, what you are known to be good at and where there is an opportunity in the market. Please start making that list. — Tristan Lombard
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Gary Hawkes
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Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering. Recently promoted to Head of Engineering (Jul 2026).
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