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The Engineering Manager’s Guide to Emotional Tolerance (thrivinginengineering.substack.com)
20 Sep
Drew Pontikis
engineering-management
Testing’s loudest problem aint AI (katalon.com)
20 Sep
Rahul Parwal
katalon
quality-people
How to test OTPs (beyond the obvious) (wonderproxy.com)
19 Sep
Rahul Parwal
testing
how-to-test
AtomicA11y LinkedIn post and AI Skills collection (www.linkedin.com)
19 Sep
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
The Maintenance Crossover: When to Replace Open-Source Test Automation (www.accelq.com)
18 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
test
automation
Flight chaos caused by software defect in the 'space of a millisecond', report says (www.bbc.co.uk)
18 Sep
Rosie Sherry
bugs-in-the-wild
aviation
Intelligence without a Body (www.linkedin.com)
18 Sep
Judy Mosley
ai
Projects by Justin Holsgrove (jholsgrove.github.io)
18 Sep
Simon Tomes
projects
github
Capacity Isn’t Velocity (angryweasel.substack.com)
18 Sep
Rosie Sherry
capacity
velocity
Hiring Is Asking for Fewer Skills and More Years. What That Means for Anyone Who Tests Code. (azevedorafaela.com)
18 Sep
Rosie Sherry
career
hiring
Confidently Incorrect (qualityremarks.com)
18 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-confidence
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob (charity.wtf)
18 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-slop
ai-framework
One Loop After Another (qualityremarks.com)
18 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
loops
Archeology: How to Inherit a System Nobody Documented (nvasileiadis.github.io)
18 Sep
Emily O'Connor
expected-behaviours
systems-thinking
ACCELQ Named a Leader in G2 Fall 2026 Reports (www.accelq.com)
16 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
g2
Claude Certifications 2026: Exams, Preparation & My Experience (testengineeringnotes.com)
16 Sep
Oleksandr Romanov
ai
claude
Lessons from La Poste’s IT Incident: Quality in Software Deployments (emnaayadi.com)
15 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
incident-response
Invisible Leadership: Why Recognition Isn’t the Goal (medium.com)
15 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
leadership
staff-level
How to learn Claude and Claude Code for free in 2026 (testengineeringnotes.com)
15 Sep
Oleksandr Romanov
ai
claude
Orchestrating Agentic Test Automation with Playwright c3 (www.eventbrite.co.uk)
14 Sep
Ady Stokes
automation
agentic
How does a tough week link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
14 Sep
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
resilience
Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early (reproof.app)
14 Sep
Simon Tomes
optimism
software-history
The AI safety vibe shift (www.platformer.news)
14 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-safety
ai-security
Anthropic report - Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (www.anthropic.com)
11 Sep
Simon Tomes
anthropic
ai-misuse
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons (www.bbc.co.uk)
11 Sep
Rosie Sherry
anthropic
ai-is-going-great
Automation-First QA Is a Mindset Shift, Not a Framework (medium.com)
11 Sep
Deborah Reid
automation-first
quality-engineering
Quality People: Rahul Parwal on Filtering the Noise in Testing's AI Moment (katalon.com)
11 Sep
Bella Phan
katalon
Practices I Abandoned with Agents: An Ode to Test-Driven Development (adamtornhill.substack.com)
10 Sep
Simon Tomes
tdd
repl
Bill Gates' Five questions about AI—and my answers (youtu.be)
10 Sep
Simon Tomes
ai
ai-scepticism
W3C Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 working draft (www.w3.org)
10 Sep
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How to test file uploads (wonderproxy.com)
09 Sep
Ady Stokes
how-to
file-uploads
Recognizing Women Who Shape Testing Community (www.linkedin.com)
09 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
ai
testing
Skills from A Smart Bear (skills.asmartbear.com)
09 Sep
Rosie Sherry
skills
founders
Matt Pocock's AI Agent Claude Skills (github.com)
09 Sep
Simon Tomes
claude
claude-skills
NATS technical fault causes widespread disruption at UK airports (airlinerworld.com)
09 Sep
Simon Tomes
nats
production-issues
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) (www.rickmanelius.com)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-dr
Embracing the Code Review Bottleneck (www.honeycomb.io)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
code-review
bottleneck
The Safest Job from AI may be Writing (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-careers
career
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (www.sylvainkalache.com)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-systems
No Bull: Why I Built an AI Tool That Argues With Me (nimbleapproach.com)
08 Sep
Simon Tomes
llm-evaluation
critical-thinking
D365 Testing: Are you validating the outcome or just the steps? (www.linkedin.com)
08 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
dynamics365
software
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive (www.wired.com)
07 Sep
Preeti Gupta
ai
How do my wedding shoes link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
07 Sep
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
sustainable-tech
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
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