Category: Tooling
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We Have Been Reporting Quality Wrong And It Is Hurting Our Teams
There is a reporting pattern I have seen repeated across teams, across companies, across industries. After every sprint, every release cycle, every test run, someone pulls together a report. It usually has a table of numbers. Bugs filed. Bugs fixed. Test cases executed. Pass rate. And somewhere in that report, there is an implicit scorecard…
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The honest QA engineer’s guide to building an agentic automation pipeline with Playwright MCP and Claude Code
My honest journey from skepticism to a fully agentic automation pipeline. When Playwright MCP started showing up everywhere in the QA and dev communities, I did not start believing the hype instantly. My instinct was to prove and test it, not adopt it blindly. I’ve been in QA for 15 years and I’ve seen enough…
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The Books That Shaped My Strategy as a Quality Advocate
Early in my career, I thought mastering testing techniques would be enough. Write good test cases.Execute thoroughly.Report clearly.Improve coverage. But as my responsibilities grew into leading teams, shaping strategy, influencing stakeholder, I realized something important: Quality isn’t a testing activity.It’s a system. Over time, certain books reshaped how I think about testing, leadership, strategy, customer…
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QA’s evolving functions in the AI era
Before anything else, let me start with this: We’re Not Being Replaced, We’re Evolving AI isn’t eliminating QA—it’s expanding it. Our work shifts from only validating UI/business flows to shaping data, safety governance and regulation, evaluation, and continuous improvement across the foundation model (FM) lifecycle. With the right education, skills and methods, us QAs become…
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Locator Strategy That Actually Reduces Flakiness
One of the top frustrations in test automation is flaky tests — tests that fail sometimes, pass other times, even when nothing changed. 👉 Most of the time, the culprit is a bad locator strategy. In this guide, I’ll show you how to pick locators that actually reduce flakiness, with real-world examples and templates you…