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Your AI Doesn’t Know What Is “Correct”

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AI-assisted code generation has changed the capabilities of organizations to produce code. In this article, Hélder Ferreira discusses the impact on software quality created by this new situation. The main problem is that this new code is often created by tools that lack the knowledge of the global context of both the application infrastructure and the process being automated. share share share share 

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How to Test Location-Based Software: A Practical QA Guide

September 15, 2026 0

A customer appears on the map, the address looks correct, and the page loads without errors. The test passes. But what happens when that customer sits exactly between two service areas? Which team receives the account? Does the answer change after someone edits a boundary?

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Knowledge

  • 6 Best Code-Level Forensics Tools for Production Failures in 2026

    September 12, 2026 0
    Production failures rarely arrive with a clean explanation. A release looks healthy in staging, then fails under real traffic. A background job works for most customers, then breaks for one segment. A service slows down after a deployment, but only when a specific dependency, payload shape, feature flag, or account [...]

  • How to Test Security Software for Scalability and Performance

    September 11, 2026 0
    Security software that works perfectly in a controlled setting can quickly fall apart when used at scale. As organizations grow, their security solutions need to handle a huge increase in data, users, and connected devices. This puts a lot of pressure on software development and quality assurance teams. share share share share 

  • Why Software Teams Lose Productivity to Tool and Environment Sprawl

    September 3, 2026 0
    When a company starts to blossom, adding tools to the mix for software teams is a typical move. A company may need code editors, test automation tools, cloud space, and updated project management software. But when a software team keeps adding tools without an overarching strategy in place for those [...]

  • How to Review Your Traceability Matrix to Strengthen Test Coverage

    September 1, 2026 0
    A fully green traceability matrix can make it look as though requirements are properly covered. Yet a link between a requirement and a test does not prove that the test actually verifies every required behavior. Requirements coverage gaps can remain when tests are incomplete, when a requirement evolves without its [...]

Tools

  • Turning Postman Collections into Committable Pytest Suites

    June 23, 2026 2
    In this article, Mikhail Golikov, the sole QA on a seven-team backend platform, explains how he turned a drawer full of unrun Postman collections into committable pytest suites, walks through the conversion request by request, and shows the folder-scoped command-line tool he built so one team’s pattern could scale to [...]

  • Open Source Test Data Generators

    June 15, 2026 10
    In most of your software testing activities, you need data. Sometimes you can rely on a small sample, but if you want to perform some load testing or if you want to test a feature that needs to produce a multipage invoice, then you start to need more than just [...]

  • Open Source API Testing Tools

    March 3, 2026 6
    The rising trend of using SOA and then microservices as a software architecture has led to the creation of multiple tools for automated testing of the services API. This article presents a list of open source API testing tools. share share share share 

  • Open Source Test Management Tools

    December 2, 2025 4
    Test management is defined by Wikipedia a part of the software testing process that includes the planning of tests and test cases, their execution and the storage and analysis of the tests results. This is achieved also by the integration with requirements management tools, functional software testing tools like Selenium [...]

Videos

  • Industrial Strength Software Testing for Complex Systems

    June 9, 2026 1
    Complexity is a property of software systems with lots of components that interact in lots of ways. Bugs thrive in complexity. Inert bugs in one component may be activated by seemingly unrelated changes in another. Latent bugs may take years [...]

  • Story Maps and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

    January 30, 2026 2
    This is a hands-on practical session about agile testing where participants split into groups and learn how to do story mapping and how to write Given-When-Then Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tests. share share share share 

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