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API Testing Is Not About Status Codes. It Is About Whether Systems Keep Their Promises.
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API Testing Is Not About Status Codes. It Is About Whether Systems Keep Their Promises.

API testing is easy to start, but its real value goes far beyond checking 200 responses. It is about validating business rules, failure behaviour, integrations and whether systems keep the promises they make to each other. I would keep AI completely out of the headline tomorrow. Four consecutive articles screaming AI would start making the profile look one-dimensional. This article makes you look like someone who understands core testing engineering as well as AI, which is much stronger profess

12 August 20269 min read
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The Tests Passed. But Could We Debug It in Production?
Quality Engineering

The Tests Passed. But Could We Debug It in Production?

A green test suite proves what we decided to test. But when something unexpected fails in production, can we actually understand why? This article looks at why observability, failure evidence and production signals are becoming an important part of modern Quality Engineering.

12 August 20267 min
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AI Can Generate Tests. But Who Tests the Tests?
Quality Engineering

AI Can Generate Tests. But Who Tests the Tests?

AI can now generate automated tests quickly, but more tests do not automatically mean better quality. This article looks at the next QA challenge: validating whether AI-generated tests are meaningful, reliable and actually worth trusting.

10 August 20267 min
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AI Can Write Code in Minutes. QA Still Has to Decide Whether We Should Trust It.
AI & Technology

AI Can Write Code in Minutes. QA Still Has to Decide Whether We Should Trust It.

AI can generate code and tests faster than ever, but speed does not automatically create confidence. This article looks at how QA is shifting from simply executing tests to evaluating risk, evidence, assumptions and whether a software change can genuinely be trusted.

9 August 20269 min
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AI Agents Are Getting More Powerful. The Real Question Is: Who Is Still in Control?
AI & Technology

AI Agents Are Getting More Powerful. The Real Question Is: Who Is Still in Control?

AI agents are moving beyond chat and into action. That makes governance, access control, behavioural testing and human approval far more important than most organisations realise.

9 August 202610 min
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