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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
I Don’t Want to Read What You Didn’t Write (blog.colinbreck.com)
27 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-writing
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection (www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com)
27 Sep
Rosie Sherry
code-review
Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk (www.persuasion.community)
27 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-risk
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype (www.technologyreview.com)
27 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-scepticism
ai-is-going-great
Extending minds through Generative AI (www.nature.com)
27 Sep
Melissa Fisher
ai
Exploratory Testing Reimagined with Maaret Pyhäjärvi | PractiTest Webinar (youtu.be)
25 Sep
Guna Petrova
exploratory-testing
ai-exploratory-testing
Best Service Virtualization Tools for Enterprise Testing (parasoft.com)
25 Sep
Chantal Wauters
service-virtualization
parasoft
So you've built the product, now what? An experience report. (fishouthebox.medium.com)
25 Sep
Melissa Fisher
supportability
maintainability
Anthropic CEO Amodei warns UN Security Council on AI risks (youtu.be)
24 Sep
Simon Tomes
ai-risks
anthropic
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
24 Sep
Simon Tomes
samsung
smart-devices
OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known rogue AI breach of government body (www.bbc.co.uk)
24 Sep
Simon Tomes
openai
ai-security
How to test alternative text (alt-text) (wonderproxy.com)
23 Sep
Ady Stokes
how-to
alt-text
Good examples of adding Evals and Guardrails to Skills (github.com)
23 Sep
Christopher Chant
ai
agent-skills
When nothing happens, something went very right (womenintesting.beehiiv.com)
23 Sep
Simon Tomes
legacy-systems
migration
How does the AI "Car Wash Test" link back to QE (www.linkedin.com)
22 Sep
Deborah Reid
generative-ai
quality-engineering
CIA Security Testing (www.o2sn.dk)
22 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
security-testing
data-integrity
From Community and Conversations to Quality Strategy (www.linkedin.com)
22 Sep
Diana Dromey
motacon-2025
learning-outcomes
AI agents evolve their own languages (www.schmidtsciences.org)
22 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-language
ai-communication
Hypothesis is the property-based testing library for Python (hypothesis.readthedocs.io)
22 Sep
Rosie Sherry
python
property-based-testing
OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis (simonwillison.net)
21 Sep
Rosie Sherry
rouge-agents
ai-is-going-great
If you want a job doing - don't do it yourself, really, just don't (www.chrispratt.uk)
21 Sep
Chris Pratt
leadership
teamwork
You are building boring products (bitshift.ing)
21 Sep
Hanisha Arora
product-engineering
ai-adoption
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