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AI & Testing
Using AI mercenaries… to fill your party’s quality gap
AI agents can be the mercenaries that fill the gaps in our quality party, but only if we know which gaps we have.
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Quality Engineering
Building a quality culture from zero: a case study
I was brought into an organisation with no quality function, this is how I built a culture of quality from zero.
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Testing Fundamentals
Start with the risks, not the method
Back in 2022 I wrote a test approach that was terrible, this is my framework for starting with the WHAT of quality.
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AI & Testing
I was an AI sceptic… and I’ve got the old blog posts to prove it
I wrote my AI scepticism down at the time, now I’m looking back at what I said with a fresh pair of eyes.
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Quality Engineering
Why did testing miss this… Because you didn’t set a risk appetite
When someone asks “why wasn’t this found in testing?” the real gap is usually a missing decision on risk appetite.
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AI & Testing, Exploratory Testing
Yes you can run exploratory testing with AI
AI can actually run your exploratory testing… it just needs a charter, heuristics and a risk appetite to guide it.
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AI & Testing, Quality Engineering
Change failure rate and AI adoption: What your DORA dashboard misses
You might have a DORA dashboard… but if you can’t pinpoint which deploy caused an incident, faster AI is risky.
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AI & Testing
AI Readiness Radar: Framework for engineering teams
Hot take: AI isn’t going to save your dysfunctional engineering team, these five signals will show if you’re ready.
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Industry & Opinion
An example abstract for conference talks
Sharing an old abstract of mine that got selected and breaking down why it worked, to help others write their own.
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AI & Testing
Creating a Playwright framework with AI
I used Claude Code to build a Playwright end to end framework from scratch, treating AI like a junior SDET.
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Quality Engineering
Guest blog: You don’t want quality engineers
Luke Lattimer-Rogers writes a companion piece to my keynote on why the testing community needs to embrace quality engineering.
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Quality Engineering
You’re not ready for quality engineering
Many testers say things that show they’re not ready for quality engineering, what do engineering teams really want?
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AI & Testing, Quality Engineering
Quality engineering with AI
Teams will use AI to go faster, as quality professionals we need to offer guardrails rather than be armchair critics.
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AI & Testing, Quality Engineering
Using AI to help teams shift testing left
Using the right AI prompts to review user stories before development starts, supporting testability and velocity.