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Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good. (github.blog)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
alt-text
automated-checks
Qpilot - AI agent that runs your manual test cases in a real browser (github.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-agent
ai-tool
Apparently We Need a Testing Mindset After All (www.linkedin.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
testing-mindset
Testing Knowledge Isn’t (Just) a Testing Skill (testerstories.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
software-testing
How to Make Your SKILL.md Interactive (filiphric.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-skills
AI success depends on data foundations (blog.scottlogic.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-data
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality (github.blog)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-efficiency
Slack emoji maker (simonwillison.net)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
emojis
slack
Quality falls through the gaps (qualityeng.substack.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
quality
quality-engineering
Looking Back on a Reorganisation (nicolalindgren.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
career
Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists (leaddev.com)
03 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
engineering
test-engineering
TestMu Conf'26 Recordings (youtube.com)
03 Sep
Ady Stokes
conference
testmu
ChangeAtlas: Mapping a release onto your system’s dependency graph (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
02 Sep
Justin Holsgrove
system-thinking
risk-analysis
Quality Talks: The Next Chapter - Ep 1 (youtu.be)
02 Sep
Stu Day
podcast
quality
Free QA Skills for AI Coding Agents (github.com)
01 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
security
skills
How does a wasp in the bathroom link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
01 Sep
Deborah Reid
problem-solving
quality-engineering
The teams that understand how to build and validate resilient, machine-friendly infrastructure today will lead the next generation of web architecture.i (medium.com)
01 Sep
Aj Wilson
ai
software
New MOT Denver Chapter (lnkd.in)
31 Aug
Komal chowdhary
chapter-denver
newmotchapter
Are Test Management Tools Becoming Obsolete? (emnaayadi.com)
29 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
tools
test-management-tool
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought (www.theverge.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
ai-is-going-great
Job Hunt With a Bot? (debbie.codes)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
job-hunting
Quality Management System has the same parts but how it is operating is changing (fishouthebox.medium.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
quality-management-system
qms
Testing Is a Role, Not a Person (testerstories.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
testing-role
software-testing
And, not But (angryweasel.substack.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
and
but
Control and complexity: tension in systems design (ferd.ca)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
systems-thinking
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident (metr.org)
28 Aug
Giorgos Siamantas
ai-security
ai-agents
The hidden complexity of input fields: All the questions I ask before I trust it (wonderproxy.com)
27 Aug
Ady Stokes
input-handling
testing
Staff engineers shift from solving problems to shaping systems (leaddev.com)
26 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
staff-level
problem-solving
Can Multiple AI Models Improve Enterprise Trust? (www.technewsworld.com)
25 Aug
Preeti Gupta
ai
Testing for Disruption🎉 (www.o2sn.dk)
25 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
resilience
disaster-recovery
How does splitting an orange link back to QE? (lnkd.in)
25 Aug
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
question-asking
The AI Organization, part I (blog.omarshams.ai)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-organization
How AI Is Changing Open Source (enblog.eischmann.cz)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai
opensource
Hackers are using “evolved” capabilities in AI-generated malware to hit US critical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale — “active threat” currently hitting energy, water and agricultural industries (www.techradar.com)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
hacking
ai-malware
Building an agentic SDLC with a QA engineering mindset (stackoverflow.blog)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-quality-engineering
quality-engineering
When social platforms reward reaction, blogging rewards reflection (alexandrelion.com)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
blogging
social
What coffee taught me about building products? (bitshift.ing)
24 Aug
Hanisha Arora
product
creative-thinking
Book link: Bob and Alice learns Secure coding & application security (shehackspurple.ca)
21 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
security
application-security
The Archaeologist and the Witness (www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com)
21 Aug
Rosie Sherry
software-development
Are you using AI? Do not forget your whip (skyecleary.substack.com)
20 Aug
Simon Tomes
ai-scepticism
critical-thinking
Interesting idea of "signal engineering" as a non-deterministic approach to testing (softwaresignalengineering.org)
20 Aug
Lisa Crispin
ai-automation
test-automation-tool
Accessibility Game Theory: Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled) (www.linkedin.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How to test colour contrast: There's more to it than you think. (wonderproxy.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
TestMu Conf 26 is live now (might work for recordings) (app.zuddl.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
conference
ai
Testing Times 19th of August 2026 (www.linkedin.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
testing
news
How does the eclipse relate to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
18 Aug
Deborah Reid
continuous-learning
automation
Sainsbury's branch halts AI use as shopper ejected (www.bbc.co.uk)
17 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
How to Use AI With Your Brain (thinkingtester.com)
17 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-thinking
Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow (hackernoon.com)
17 Aug
Simon Tomes
claude-code
claude
Cyberattacks expose U.S. water vulnerabilities (www.axios.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
cyber-attack
security
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