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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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Why “It Works on My Machine” Keeps Breaking Production
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How I Built an Agentic SDLC Demo with Cursor, MCP Servers, Playwright, GitHub, and Vercel in Under an Hour.
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Staying sane in a post-modern world, from Anne-Marie Charrett
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Leading Through Discomfort
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Grateful for the conversations, challenges, and the amazing testing community.
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Video Recording for Desktop Test ing
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The Problem with Synthetic Users
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Technical Debt Is a Myth Created By Bad Managers
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AI Testing Cycles: Testing When There’s No Single ‘Right’ Answer
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Traits of a good Tech Lead
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Episode 83: Playwright - with Debbie O'Brien
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Block, anthropic-and openai launch the agentic ai foundation
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The 2025 Quality Engineering Index: 100 Insights
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Signals in the Noise
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When UI Automation Slowly Loses Trust
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Diary of a QE Leader
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The AI Security Industry is Bullshit
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What Quality Engineers Actually Care About: Insights from 30 essays, 21 Linkys, and 33k+ Reads
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Quality is a commercial choice: The case for pragmatism
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Introducing SmartBear AI Labs: Imagining the Future of Software Quality
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Strengthen your security testing by learning how simple tools can uncover vulnerabilities before attackers do.
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Tools to help you with security testing
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Tools to help you with security testing
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Communities of Practice, a live conversation
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Join Drew Pontikis and Rosie Sherry
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Nice one for the Membership renewal!
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Acceptance Criteria to code to Pull Request with Applitools or Testim?
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Advice for a large project
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99 risks with the advancement of software testing an AI
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Lesson 2 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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Learn how to build security into your day-to-day testing!
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Eighteen months, 19 modules, and 59 amazing contributors later, the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification is complete!
Looking back, my favourite part has been seeing so many community m...
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Explore how to challenge unhealthy levels of team conformity and help your team make better decisions earlier
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Detect where integration failures start using a simple, fast and innovative 5-point parallel search method
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Follow a personal journey of failure, growth, and rediscovery shaped by persistence and a supportive testing community
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Shine a light. The TORCH technique for exploratory testing helps quality professionals bring structure and freedom to their exploratory testing sessions.
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