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10 Career Traps (Thoughtful People Fall Into) (cutlefish.substack.com)
08 Oct
Giorgos Siamantas
career
career-advice
ASOS links data breach to social engineering attack, credential theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
08 Oct
Simon Tomes
asos
social-engineering
From Discovery to Self-Healing: What Can Testing AI Actually Do? (www.accelq.com)
08 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
autonomous-testing
agentic-ai
How to test for Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities (wonderproxy.com)
07 Oct
Ady Stokes
xss
security
Testing the Untestable: Building a strategy for testing AI (www.thequalityduck.co.uk)
07 Oct
Stuart Thomas
ai
testing-ai
What I learned from Suzanne Kraaij's MoTaCon talk! (lisacrispin.com)
07 Oct
Lisa Crispin
fear
factor
Dynamics 365 Multi-Layer Test Validation: Beyond UI Testing (www.accelq.com)
07 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
dynamics365
enterprise-testing
When Quality Engineering Creates Chaos: Lessons from my Workshop at Leading with Quality 2026 (proquains.com)
07 Oct
Simon Tomes
leading-with-quality
quality-engineering
Every meeting is a monster (so make it a fun one) (www.linkedin.com)
06 Oct
Diana Dromey
motacon
How to Test a ChatBot (thinkingtester.com)
06 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-chat
chatbot
Asos users receive pop-up notification apparently sent by hackers (www.bbc.co.uk)
06 Oct
Rosie Sherry
hacks-in-the-wild
hack
https://www.ministryoftesting.com/moments/jev-in-practice-build-faster-more-reliable-ai-decisions-online-session-with-discount (www.eventbrite.co.uk)
06 Oct
Ady Stokes
ai
automation
Reading the room (www.o2sn.dk)
06 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
neurodiversity
AI accelerates testing. People lead quality. (thefutureofsoftwaretesting.com)
06 Oct
Bella Phan
katalon
How does packing for MoTaCon link back to QE/AI? (www.linkedin.com)
05 Oct
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
ai
AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at Honeycomb (www.honeycomb.io)
05 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-norms
ethics
How To Write With An LLM (sockpuppet.org)
05 Oct
Rosie Sherry
writing
ai-writing
“An AI did it” is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack (arstechnica.com)
05 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
ai-lawsuits
Claude’s Constitution (www.anthropic.com)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
claude
ai-ethics
Mustafa Suleyman: Can AI stay under human control? (youtu.be)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
humanist-ai
claude
Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct (microsoft.ai)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
microsoft
humanist-ai
The Humanist AI Code of Conduct (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
humanist-ai
code-of-conduct
The Larry problem, shift-left undone (angryweasel.substack.com)
01 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
shift-left
ai-scepticism
Are They Working Hard? (estherderby.com)
01 Oct
Judy Mosley
agile
teamwork
Resources to help understand LLMs. Inlcudes leaked system prompts for all major AI Platofrms. Be safe and responsible. (github.com)
01 Oct
Christopher Chant
ai
ai-security
The guy who started a massive dance party at Sasquatch Music Festival (2009) (youtu.be)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
leadership
ethics
No accessibility for old men – endless tour. Steve Faulkner (html5accessibility.com)
30 Sep
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
When the Pipeline Became the Bottleneck - latest article on The Quality Forge blog (forge-quality.dev)
30 Sep
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
ci-cd
Power Impacts Leadership - The Bases of Social Power (link.springer.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
power
leadership
A typology of organisational cultures (qualitysafety.bmj.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
engineering-management
leading-with-quality
Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations (digitalcommons.usu.edu)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
culture
model
Engineering Career Framework: Staff (handbook.gitlab.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
staff-level
gitlab
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” (charity.wtf)
30 Sep
Rosie Sherry
engineering-management
staff-engineering
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (www.goodreads.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
engineering-management
book
Testing isn't getting in the way, your process is (medium.com)
29 Sep
Dal Sidhu
building-quality
culture-of-quality
The Things You Take With You (www.linkedin.com)
29 Sep
Adam Davis
talks
self-development
5 Test Management Tools to Evaluate in 2026 (katalon.com)
29 Sep
Bella Phan
katalon
Katalon True AI Tester: a free, hands-on certification with no exam (academy.katalon.com)
29 Sep
Bella Phan
katalon
Video Agent Testing: How to Test AI Agents on Camera (www.testmuai.com)
28 Sep
Simon Tomes
video-agent-testing
ai-agent-testing
Teaching the agent to hunt: why execution alone will never produce exploratory testing (shiftsync.tricentis.com)
28 Sep
Rahul Parwal
ai-chapter
ai
How does ordering a birthday cake relate back to QE? (lnkd.in)
28 Sep
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
AI SRE loops for DevOps teams: from failed tool call to GitHub issue (youtu.be)
28 Sep
Guna Petrova
ai
agentic-qa
Conversational AI for Test Automation: How ACCELQ Converse Works (www.accelq.com)
28 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
conversational-ai
test-automation
The AI-Native Vendor Evaluation Framework (thegtmnewsletter.substack.com)
28 Sep
Rosie Sherry
vendor-evaluation
vendor-management
Is Dev Rel Marketing, Engineering, or Product? "The Answer Is Yes," Says Checkmarx's Tessa Mero (hackernoon.com)
28 Sep
Rosie Sherry
devrel
How AI is reshaping vulnerability discovery and remediation (www.techradar.com)
28 Sep
Rosie Sherry
security-testing
vulnerabilities
Meta Muse already has a majorly worrying zero-day security issue (www.techradar.com)
28 Sep
Rosie Sherry
security
zero-day
The Internet Used to Have Places (deadparrotbbs.com)
28 Sep
Rosie Sherry
community-building
The Other 50% (andysontag.medium.com)
28 Sep
Rosie Sherry
learning-design
community-experience
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees (www.404media.co)
27 Sep
Rosie Sherry
security
hacks-in-the-wild
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