QA Insights & Strategies
Explore our latest thoughts on quality assurance, testing strategies, and scaling engineering teams in the GenAI era.
Foundation Book V: The Handoff Zone
The handoff zone is where your business logic goes to die. Learn how to track and validate business flows across backend-frontend boundaries with Business-Use framework.
Vibe Break - Chapter V: The Pixel Perturbation
v0 by Vercel generates beautiful UI components in seconds, but subtle visual inconsistencies—misaligned elements, wonky spacing, broken responsive layouts—create a growing "pixel perturbation" problem that functional testing can't catch.
Vibe Break Chapter IV: The Lovable Inadvertence
Lovable reached unicorn status by letting anyone build apps through chat, but 170 user apps leaked sensitive data due to AI-generated security flaws. Learn how to secure vibe coding.
Vibe Break - Chapter III: The Replit Regression
Replit ships at lightspeed, but its deployment black hole swallows QA. Learn how to bridge the gap between rapid AI development and reliable testing with GitHub Actions and desplega.ai.
Vibe Break - Chapter II: The Expensive Canary Divergence
AI-powered "vibe coding" tools can build apps in hours, but skipping proper testing leads to database deletions and $700+ API bills. Learn regression testing and canary releases for safe AI development.
Vibe Break - Chapter I: The Vibe Abstraction
Vibe coding lets anyone build real apps by describing what they want in plain English. Learn how AI is democratizing software creation and freeing engineers to solve harder problems.
Test Wars VIII: The Clone Implementation - AI Testing Statistics
AI testing vendors clone statistics to sell wrong solutions. Learn how to distinguish Quality Control from Quality Assurance in the $8B AI testing market.
Test Wars IX: The Code Wars - No-Code vs Vibe Coding
No-code platforms offer strategic escape from vibe coding chaos. Reduce technical debt, maintain quality, and achieve faster time-to-market in 2025's AI development era.
Foundation Book IV: The Cost of Poor Quality
Understanding the true cost of poor quality in software development and how to measure and reduce it effectively.
Foundation Book III: Fire Your QA Director
When to replace QA leadership vs. fix systemic quality issues. Transform QA from reactive cost center to proactive powerhouse.
Foundation Book II: WAGC Axe Engine
WCAG is the canon, axe is the engine—yet the green check is not the truth. Learn why compliance requires governance, design discipline, and human review.
Foundation Book I: The Three-A Problem
AAA structures tests; BDD defines acceptance. Learn how to use both to raise quality and speed delivery across teams.
Test Wars Episode VII: Test Coverage Rebels
Join the rebellion against meaningless test coverage metrics. Learn how to build meaningful test suites that actually catch bugs and prevent regressions.
Test Wars Episode VI: The Outage Awakens
When production outages strike, your testing strategy becomes your lifeline. Learn how to prevent, detect, and recover from system failures.
Test Wars Episode V: The Non-Determinism Menace
Explore how non-deterministic behavior in AI-generated code creates testing challenges and learn strategies to maintain quality in uncertain environments.
Test Wars Episode IV: Production Strikes Back
When your tests pass but production fails, it's time to rethink your testing strategy. Learn how to build tests that actually catch real-world issues.
Test Wars Episode III: Return of Dev Confidence
How proper testing practices restore developer confidence and accelerate delivery. Learn the secrets of fearless refactoring and continuous deployment.
Test Wars Episode II: AI New Hope
Discover how AI is revolutionizing testing practices and bringing new hope to quality assurance teams worldwide.
Test Wars Episode I: The Rise of Technical Debt
Discover how technical debt accumulates and becomes the silent killer of software projects. Learn strategies to prevent and manage technical debt before it's too late.