Quality Isn’t an Activity… It’s a System!

Part 1 of 4: Rethinking the quality operating model for AI-native engineering Here's a scenario I'd suspect most engineering leaders reading this will recognise: An incident slips into production. Not a sev-1 or 2, more like a sev-3 that the team commits to resolving in their backlog rather than through on-call, the kind that generates [...]

I Let BearQ Loose on My Own App Through Two Lenses: Tester and Engineering Leader

Part 4 in "The Autonomous Testing Tipping Point" series If you've been following along, you'll know we've been exploring application integrity, the gap opening up between AI-accelerated development and our ability to test what we're shipping, and the broader implications for how we think about quality. In this one, I want to get hands-on. I've [...]

Autonomous Testing has Landed: Welcome BearQ, by SmartBear

So… It’s here - the thing I’ve been hinting at across my past two articles. If you’ve been following my 2-part series about “The Autonomous Testing Tipping Point”, in both parts I talked a lot about the crossroads we’re at in our industry, between the existing world of quality and testing strategies that revolve around [...]