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Did Anthropic just create a juicy new risk for software testers? (medium.com)
30 Jul
Aj Wilson
ai
claude
The engineer who asks better questions wins (www.linkedin.com)
30 Jul
Adam Davis
ai
side-projects
AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine? (evilmartians.com)
29 Jul
Drew Pontikis
ai
engineering-management
OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies (www.bbc.co.uk)
29 Jul
Rosie Sherry
openai
ai-is-going-great
When the update of the UI redesign was so fast that they missed privacy (wonderproxy.com)
29 Jul
Ady Stokes
bug-story
security
What sixty automated runs found in a site built to break them (www.linkedin.com)
29 Jul
Rosie Sherry
test-automation
candymapper
On being humbled with AI (SmartBear + BearQ) (www.linkedin.com)
29 Jul
Rosie Sherry
smartbear
bearq
Durham University leads the way in guiding people with sight loss (businessdisabilityforum.org.uk)
29 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
From a player to a coach - 5 ideas from the Quality Coach`s Handbook (testengineeringnotes.com)
28 Jul
Oleksandr Romanov
quality-coaching
book
Understand exploratory testing, and unlock its true value (www.thequalityduck.co.uk)
28 Jul
Stuart Thomas
exploratory-testing
ai-exploratory-testing
Stop Asking AI for Test Cases: Building a Gate-Controlled SDET Prompt (ujjwalkumarsingh.substack.com)
28 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
testing
test-case
Steering Claude Code: when to use CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, and subagents (claude.com)
28 Jul
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
claude
Rethinking security for the age of AI (blogs.microsoft.com)
27 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-security
Digital government services increase accessibility gap (www.computerweekly.com)
27 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How does registering for a conference like MoTaCon link back to QE for me? (www.linkedin.com)
27 Jul
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
growth-mindset
ChatGPT Health Goes Nationwide: Your Medical Records Lose HIPAA Protection (www.techtimes.com)
27 Jul
Cassandra H. Leung
ai
aiinhealthcare
Exploring the AI Minimum Viable Community (MVC) (rosie.land)
26 Jul
Rosie Sherry
mvc
ai-mvc
Hundreds Of Anthropic Chatbot Transcripts Showed Up In Google Search (www.forbes.com)
26 Jul
Emily O'Connor
bug
wild
Build A PyTest Framework From Scratch Part 3 (youtube.com)
26 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
pytest
python
Build A PyTest Framework From Scratch Part 2 (youtube.com)
26 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
pytest
python
Build A PyTest Framework From Scratch Part 1 (youtube.com)
26 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
pytest
automation
Accessibility myth. Alt-text (www.linkedin.com)
25 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 4) (adatosystems.com)
24 Jul
Judy Mosley
lifelong-learning
What's Good? Episode 1 - Be More Human (youtu.be)
24 Jul
Rosie Sherry
podcast
good
How AI can help teams build quality into software earlier (hippodigital.co.uk)
24 Jul
Lewis Prescott
ai
atdd
The Coming AI Jobocalypse (qualityremarks.com)
24 Jul
Rosie Sherry
careers
jobs
The Hidden Loop of Quality Engineering (diagramindustries.com)
24 Jul
Rosie Sherry
quality-engineering
quality-strategy
Speaking up is only half the story (qualityeng.substack.com)
24 Jul
Rosie Sherry
quality-engineering
leadership
The Work Nobody Can See Doesn’t Count Toward Your Career (ujjwalkumarsingh.substack.com)
24 Jul
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
growth
career
How I destroyed a 3000 $ IoT Device, and what it taught me about testing (wonderproxy.com)
23 Jul
Rahul Parwal
testing
ai
Hacking is becoming cheaper and easier (www.linkedin.com)
23 Jul
Rosie Sherry
hacks-in-the-wild
hacking
WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 (www.w3.org)
23 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Handling async timing issues in tests using Playwright (www.linkedin.com)
22 Jul
Komal chowdhary
playwright
asynchronous
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack (www.bbc.co.uk)
22 Jul
Graham Sherry
ai
Software Factories, Light and Dark Loops, harnesses, factories and why engineers need to own the outer loop - by Addy Osmani (addyo.substack.com)
22 Jul
Dragan Spiridonov
llm
ai
Microsoft SharePoint under attack via new exploit (CVE-2026-50522) (www.cybersecuritydive.com)
21 Jul
Emily O'Connor
security
bugs-in-the-wild
All about the people (www.r-adams.co.uk)
21 Jul
Richard Adams
people
continuous-improvement
Why did testing miss this… Because you didn’t set a risk appetite (cakehurstryan.com)
21 Jul
Callum Akehurst-Ryan
risk
strategy
AI Safety Index (Summer 2026 Edition) (futureoflife.org)
21 Jul
Giorgos Siamantas
ai-safety
How to test podcast, keyboard accessibility clip on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com)
21 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Your AI is only as responsible as you are (stackoverflow.blog)
20 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai-ethics
ai-responsibility
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 (www.seangoedecke.com)
20 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai
quality-staff-engineer
Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI (dl.acm.org)
20 Jul
Rosie Sherry
software-engineering
software-testing
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier (techcrunch.com)
20 Jul
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-trends
Why I Stopped Arguing With People (wangcong.org)
20 Jul
Rosie Sherry
argue
communication
LLM Wiki - to create and search your own personal knowledge base (gist.github.com)
20 Jul
Lisa Crispin
ai
llms
How do you draw a stick person and how does that relate to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
20 Jul
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
diversity-in-thinking
How to use AI in your daily SDET workflow: a practical ATDD guide (shiftsync.tricentis.com)
19 Jul
Rahul Parwal
ai-chapter
ai-learning
My AI reviewers blocked my own release, and the new article tells the whole story. New on The Quality Forge (#33), "The Court That Blocked My Release" (forge-quality.dev)
19 Jul
Dragan Spiridonov
agentic-qe
ai
WebAIM Keyboard accessibility (webaim.org)
19 Jul
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
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