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Charles Penn
Senior Test Engineer
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Software tester in the Midwest of the US.
Typically happy to discuss testing of any sort, geeky things, and parenting.
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Test Complete Overview
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Leading quality in a large team
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Are conversations the key to QA-developer relationships?
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Conversational QA: From me to we
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Roundtable: Exploring Quality with Templates and Charters
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A virtual roundtable discussion focused on templates and charters
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Read Melissa Fisher's blog post: My rubber duck buddy — LLM use case - accelerate your thinkingShe uses Co-pilot to get her thinking in order before landing on a test strategy. Very nice indeed!&nb...
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Are you LLM rubber ducking?
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Are you LLM rubber ducking?
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Blog Post: It's Not About Faster, It's About Better
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Yesterday, I found an interesting video about the reality of using AI in software teams. The title is "The Hidden Cost of AI Coding That's Destroying Engineering Teams."
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My insights from "The Hidden Cost of AI Coding That's Destroying Engineering Teams"
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Leading quality in a large team
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Ship with confidence: Agentic AI-Driven Quality with Rovo Dev and Xray
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Leading quality in a large team
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Leading quality in a large team
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Leading quality in a large team
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Leading quality in a large team
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Leading quality in a large team
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Leading quality in a large team
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Learn how to survive and adapt as a solo test lead on a large, long-running project.
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"Simon,
I've experimented with this a few times!
Currently, I am in favor of the Round Earth Test Strategy found here: https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/4947
I've been toying with the idea of modeling it after a hot air balloon, but I might be ..."
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"Ady,
I define system testing as any testing that exercises the application under test as a user in order to verify that it works properly.
A system is any piece of software a user interacts with. (note that this doesn't always mean the user is a huma..."
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"(Cont.)
If you build up system level tests, you can update the code underneath with more confidence (and build up your other levels of testing while you're at it!).
We've actually seen this situation at our company already, and I can imagine a lot of ..."
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"Rosie,
You could certainly argue (and I would) that Systems Testing is going to stay at least as important, if not more so in the age of AI.
One example I can think of is if you're brought in to work on an existing system that was heavily written usi..."
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"Hello all!
I'm sorry for the delay, I actually thought I'd get an email for responses. Simon pinged me to let me know I was missing all of your questions."
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Master this framework to systematically verify, secure & improve the output quality of AI coding agents using both deterministic & model-grade.
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Evals in practice for an AI coding agent
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Evals in practice for an AI coding agent
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Shipping fast shouldn't mean shipping blind.
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Whose code is it anyway?
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Spoke at MoT Cincinnati
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A tester’s guide to AI guardrails
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Identify, test and improve AI guardrails through a structured, scenario-based framework that addresses common implementation failures and attack patterns.
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This badge is awarded to members who contribute a new term or an alternative definition to the software testing glossary.
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Whose code is it anyway?
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