Test Data Is Lying To You – Why Environments Drift
I have lost more time to test data than to any tool, framework, or flaky assertion combined. The bug that I cannot reproduce...
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Defect Management and SLA’s – The Backlog Is Not a Strategy
A few years back I opened a bug backlog that had ~400 open defects sitting in it. The team had been carrying it long before...
The LinkedIn Wasteland
I’ve been on LinkedIn a few years less than what I’ve been a QA, and for most of that time it was fine. Useful,...
Vibe Coding – Nevermind the Bollocks
My last 3 articles, I just couldn’t bring myself to publish. I was too close to the subject matter, so they came off a...
Risk-Based Testing – Make It Stick (Part 3 of 3)
You’ve got the why. You’ve got the how. Now comes the bit that actually determines whether any of this matters,...
Risk-Based Testing – The How (Part 2 of 3)
In Part 1, we covered why risk-based testing matters and what it actually means. Now comes the practical bit: how to do it...
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...
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...
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...
