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The Problem with Synthetic Users

Technical Debt Is a Myth Created By Bad Managers

AI Testing Cycles: Testing When There’s No Single ‘Right’ Answer

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Episode 83: Playwright - with Debbie O'Brien

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The 2025 Quality Engineering Index: 100 Insights

Signals in the Noise

When UI Automation Slowly Loses Trust

Diary of a QE Leader

The AI Security Industry is Bullshit

What Quality Engineers Actually Care About: Insights from 30 essays, 21 Linkys, and 33k+ Reads

Quality is a commercial choice: The case for pragmatism

Introducing SmartBear AI Labs: Imagining the Future of Software Quality

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99 risks with the advancement of software testing an AI

Lesson 2 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started

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Detect where integration failures start using a simple, fast and innovative 5-point parallel search method

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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.So what? Exploratory testing appears to hav...

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Evaluate the pros and cons of low-code automation tools through a tester’s hands-on experience selecting a solution

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A discussion on TWIT had me wondering what 'Grey Box Testing' was. Luckily, some lovely people were on hand to answer my question!

I am a big believer that confidence is built on actively doing things. Particularly, doing things you never done before, there is no much evidence it will work or people who would confirm your theo...