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From Bug Report to Production: How I Fix Bugs with AI (hackernoon.com)
03 Nov
Simon Tomes
ai-coding-agents
bug-fixes
European supermarket freezers overheat in fresh cyber attack (www.ft.com)
03 Nov
Simon Tomes
cybersecurity
critical-infrastructure
Teaching the Agent to Hunt: What We Tested and What Didn't Change [Part 2] (shiftsync.tricentis.com)
02 Nov
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
aiintesting
Supermarket freezers across Europe struck in second crippling cyberattack — hackers raise temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius in Belgium and Sweden, destroying food stocks (www.tomshardware.com)
02 Nov
Emily O'Connor
cyber-attack
security
Five Stages of QA Automation. Where Does Test Maintenance Change? (www.accelq.com)
02 Nov
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
software
How does the Traitors TV show link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
02 Nov
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
generative-ai
Performance testing directly inside your Cypress tests (github.com)
02 Nov
Petros Plakogiannis
cypress-plugin
cypress-io
AI startup claims it hacked Anthropic in 12 hours, gains access to employee details and internal messages (www.techradar.com)
01 Nov
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
ai-is-going-great
Practicing data-informed documentation (thisisimportant.net)
31 Oct
Rosie Sherry
data
documentation
Agentic Execution of Manual and Gherkin Tests: Questions to Ask Before You Start (www.smartesting.com)
30 Oct
Julien Botella
gherkin
ai
Open the Network Tab Before You Sign Off (www.accelq.com)
30 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
software
Accessibility and the new model of the internet (cassidoo.co)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
accessibility
ai-accessibility
Why Almost Nothing You Read Online About AI Is True (codemanship.wordpress.com)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai
myths
38 things we've learned about building AI products (newsletter.posthog.com)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-products
ai
You can just ask AI to do things (seangoedecke.com)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai
🦾Quality Robots: Would you like a Robot, Duck, or a Runner? (failureisfeedback.beehiiv.com)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai
systems
Don’t talk to me about System Integration Testing (diagramindustries.com)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
system-testing
integration-testing
The software industry has become obsessed with automating testing (fishouthebox.medium.com)
30 Oct
Rosie Sherry
test-automation
Before You Ship That iOS Build, Check What the Simulator Missed (www.accelq.com)
29 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
software
Both Test Suites Pass. Find the Broken Handoff Between Them (www.accelq.com)
28 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
software
From Manual QA to SDET: How to Make the Move (juliapottinger.com)
28 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
sdet
manual-qa
Four things quality engineers can learn from recent AI exploits (www.o2sn.dk)
27 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
security-breaches
ai-security
Internet of Baby - the privacy implications of a smart nursery, talk by Ottilia Westerlund-Trew (youtu.be)
27 Oct
Emily O'Connor
security-chapter
security
Agentic Verification (addyo.substack.com)
27 Oct
Giorgos Siamantas
agentic-ai
Building a technical career path at Spotify (engineering.atspotify.com)
27 Oct
Jesse Berkeley
career-progression
technical-career
Things We Learned Creating Technology Career Steps (engineering.atspotify.com)
27 Oct
Jesse Berkeley
career-progression
career
Spotify Technology Career Steps (engineering.atspotify.com)
27 Oct
Jesse Berkeley
career
progression
Is Your Guidewire Test Rejecting the Right Claims Decision? (www.accelq.com)
27 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
software
AI Coding Assistants Are Speeding Up Delivery. Check What QA Might Miss (www.accelq.com)
26 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
software
Can We Trust an AI Agent to Execute Tests? (www.smartesting.com)
26 Oct
Julien Botella
ai
ai-agent
How does a compass and clock link back to QE? (lnkd.in)
26 Oct
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
AI uncovers massive flaw in web's foundational code (www.axios.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
security
Chinese hacker hits over 100 company websites using AI agents — Deere and SharkNinja among top brands affected in attack (www.techradar.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
hacking
ai-security
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world (www.technologyreview.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
openai
AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next (www.404media.co)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
security
ai-security
The world is not a beta test (www.gapingvoid.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
strategy
quality
AI Norms & Values, Things We Hold True (www.honeycomb.io)
25 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
ways-of-working
Free Course: Quality Governance at Enterprise Scale (shiftsync.tricentis.com)
24 Oct
Rahul Parwal
ai-chapter
governance
Quality Talks: Finding your voice, confidence, community and contribution (youtu.be)
24 Oct
Chris Pratt
podcast
community
An AI skill and CLI tool to make good documentation easy to produce, maintain and use (merlon-docs.github.io)
23 Oct
Lisa Crispin
documentation
ai
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale - by Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
23 Oct
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
llm
The Fix Passed Retesting. What Broke Next? (www.accelq.com)
23 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
regression-testing
retesting
Creating rules that stick (filiphric.com)
23 Oct
Rosie Sherry
agentic-ai
ai
Manual of Me, 2026 (www.o2sn.dk)
23 Oct
Rosie Sherry
manual-of-me
diversity
Shifting code review "left", and why we need humans involved (www.linkedin.com)
22 Oct
Lisa Crispin
pr
code
What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble? (www.bbc.co.uk)
22 Oct
Ady Stokes
security
cyber-security
An AI Agent Fixed the Test. How Do You Know It Didn’t Hide a Bug? (www.accelq.com)
22 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
agentic
PHP2Shell - Critical vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): detection, analysis, and remediation (securitylabs.datadoghq.com)
21 Oct
Simon Tomes
security
php
Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now (www.php.net)
21 Oct
Jesse Berkeley
security
php
How to test for Clickjacking vulnerability (wonderproxy.com)
21 Oct
Ady Stokes
clickjacking
security
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