I Stopped Opening Jira and Nothing Broke
I noticed something a few weeks ago. I hadn’t opened Jira in over a week. Not because I was avoiding it. Not because I...
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Kori Barnett
25 Articles
A Week with Claude Opus 4.6 and Agent Teams
I’ve spent the last week working with Claude’s new Opus 4.6 model and its experimental agent teams feature. The...
Building Test Frameworks with AI – What a Day Can Do
Last time I covered some of what/how I did things, so you could call this a part 2 in a sense. This time, it’s more...
Where Was QA? The Wrong Question
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a...
AI for QA – Simple Workflows That Help
You don’t need to be a prompt engineer. You don’t need to know how to code. You don’t need to understand...
Building AI-Assisted Test Automation – From Prompts to Production
Over the past several months, I’ve been deep in the weeds building something I’m genuinely excited about: an...
Stop the Blame Game
Something goes wrong. A defect escapes. A deadline slips. A customer complains. And almost immediately, someone asks:...
Accountability – Who Puts Their Hand Up?
There’s a moment that happens in every team or business, usually when something has gone wrong or a difficult decision...
Taking Testing Seriously – What Good QA Looks Like (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1, I talked about checkbox testing: why it exists, what it catches, and what it misses. The short version is that...
Tick the Box – Why Checkbox QA Fails (Part 1 of 2)
There’s a version of QA that exists in a lot of organisations. It’s not talked about openly, but everyone knows...
