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Notes on quality, automation, and AI
Written from real work: what breaks, what gets anticipated, and what's worth building instead of buying.
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The test pyramid isn't a diagram, it's a cost decision
Almost every team knows the test pyramid. Almost no team uses it to decide where to invest. Here I make it clickable so it's clear why it matters.
QAautomationtesting - 1 min read
QA as a system, not a checklist: the skill I uploaded to skills.sh
Codifying a senior QA's judgment as a reusable skill doesn't replace QA. It captures their method so an agent can run it.
QAagent skillsAIopen source - 2 min read
Preparing a project for AI agents shouldn't be a manual ritual
Every new project repeats the same manual setup so an AI agent can understand it. I built a framework to stop repeating it.
AIAI agentsDevOpsautomation - 2 min read
The QA role isn't disappearing, obsolete approaches are
It's not that QA disappears: what disappears is the QA who only executes, and the dev who ignores the functional impact of what they build.
QAAIcareer - 1 min read
The coffee bean: the metaphor I use to explain quality culture
A QA doesn't guarantee quality alone. They cultivate it, they permeate it, the same way a coffee bean perfumes a room without anyone controlling it.
QAquality culture - 2 min read
The C4 Diagram gives QA, Dev, and PO the same map
QA, Dev, and PO talk about 'the architecture' each with a different idea in mind. C4 gives them the same map, at different zoom levels.
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