Opinions·13 June 2026 · 7 min read
Why mobile bugs escape web-first QA teams
Web-first teams carry assumptions that quietly break on mobile — permissions, offline state, lifecycle, and updates.
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Opinions·13 June 2026 · 7 min read
Why average response time lies
The average response time is the metric most likely to make a slow system look fine. Here is what to watch instead.
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Opinions·13 June 2026 · 8 min read
AI test case generation: where it helps and where it fails
AI covers the expected cases fast and misses the suspicion-driven ones that catch bugs. Division of labour: let it handle breadth of the predictable; you handle the unexpected.
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QA trends·13 June 2026 · 7 min read
What actually changed in QA in 2026
A dated June 2026 snapshot: AI became a normal tool and testing-AI a normal job; the fundamentals didn't budge; 'AI replaces QA' is still a slide.
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QA trends·13 June 2026 · 8 min read
AI's real impact on QA roles (beyond the hype)
A dated June 2026 take: AI is reshaping QA roles, not eliminating them — eating the mechanical middle, raising the value of judgement, and re-pricing which skills pay.
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QA trends·13 June 2026 · 8 min read
Where shift-left actually landed
A dated June 2026 retrospective: shift-left landed as a sensible default oversold as a revolution — real early-bug wins, real damage where it meant 'delete QA'.
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QA trends·13 June 2026 · 9 min read
The state of test automation tooling in 2026
A dated June 2026 landscape: web E2E consolidated, API stayed code-first+GUI, performance went lightweight, mobile stayed fragmented, and AI became an authoring feature not a category.
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Opinions·12 December 2025 · 8 min read
The test pyramid is a vibe, not a rule
The Cohn test pyramid has been gospel since 2009. It was a useful heuristic for a 2009 monolith Java app. It's been quoted unchanged ever since — and most modern stacks don't fit its shape.
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Opinions·4 November 2025 · 8 min read
Load tests in CI: the honest version
The pitch: 'run load tests on every PR.' The reality: you'll have flaky thresholds in three days and disabled tests in two weeks. Here's the four-tier strategy that actually survives.
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Opinions·21 October 2025 · 9 min read
Manual exploratory testing isn't dead — it's underused
What automation replaced was regression checks — running the same path repeatedly. What it didn't replace, and can't replace, is human intuition trying to break a product.
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