A hot-takes episode where the crew debates AI skepticism, manual testing’s staying power, whether AI agents really speed delivery, and why quality ultimately lives (or dies) with leadership decisions.

Thanks to a recent Love Hate AI memory posts I passed 99 memories and gained the maven badge :) 

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Do you love / hate AI too? 

Do you love / hate AI too? 

Do you love / hate AI too? 

Quality Professionals and testers are continuous learners, but knowledge is only as good as its application. The quality of software is only as good as the quality of thinking that goes into i...

Adam answered questions at A11y North held at Hippo in Leeds 

Testing the Inaccessible. Where to start with a challenging website. The problems were no owner, lack of focus and many involved with no guidelines were the main issues. Adam Clarkson too...

Go check out the latest event on the Leeds Chapter page. https://www.ministryoftesting.com/chapters/mot-leeds/events/mot-leeds-280526 

The Testing Mindset (in my humble opinion) is an umbrella term that covers a number of different mindsets, or ways of thinking about a subject. As I said in my September 2025 article (see reference), "From the beginning of my software testing career in 2003, I’d repeatedly heard about the ‘tester's mindset.’ There were very few actual definitions and none that I felt fit well. I did some research to see if someone specific coined the term, but it is more likely that it evolved over time." In that article, I suggested that, as testers or quality professionals, we should have more than one mindset. I gave 11 examples of software testing mindsets, and since then, I've added another. I asked in the article for people to suggest their own or expand on them. Maybe you can add to this glossary term with your own ideas and mindsets. Or, you may see it differently, which is great. Debate pushes the craft forward. Here is the latest list as of April 2026. They are now grouped and I hope to share them as a model in the future.  Visionary and open Blue-sky (innovator)  Creative (visionary)  Exploratory (investigator)  Inclusive (ally)  Analytical and grounded Scientific (realist)  Sceptical (analyst)  Critical (evaluator)  Risk-based (strategist)  Philosophical and connected  Ethical (moralist)  Holistic (connector)  Collaborative (partner)  Dark and aggressive Malevolent (saboteur)