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Two Weeks In: A 15-Year QA Veteran, Back to Being the New Guy

xulingfengSep 22, 2026 • 6 min read

Two Weeks In: A 15-Year QA Veteran, Back to Being the New Guy

I started last Monday. Today it's been exactly two weeks. Here's the funny part. I've spent 15...

#discuss#career#testing#ai

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Stop Paying the build_runner Tax: Why I Refuse to Use Mockito in Modern Dart

Randal L. SchwartzSep 20, 2026 • 6 min read

Stop Paying the build_runner Tax: Why I Refuse to Use Mockito in Modern Dart

Why code-generated mocks ruin developer velocity in modern Dart and Flutter, and how switching to mo...

#dart#flutter#testing#architecture

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I Put Jev Behind a TLA+ Spec and Ran 1,680 Chaos-Tested Pharmacy Decisions. Zero Wrong Verdicts.

Don JohnsonSep 19, 2026 • 5 min read

I Put Jev Behind a TLA+ Spec and Ran 1,680 Chaos-Tested Pharmacy Decisions. Zero Wrong Verdicts.

Jev returns a probability, not prose. That made it possible to model-check the consensus around it, ...

#jev#ai#rust#testing

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1,558 Tests Green and No Auth: The Tests That Never Actually Ran

Debashish GhosalSep 19, 2026 • 3 min read

1,558 Tests Green and No Auth: The Tests That Never Actually Ran

A test named test_all_adapters_importable asserted nothing. It would pass forever, even if every...

#ai#security#programming#testing

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33 broken builds, one agent on each disposable computer. The hard part was deciding what counts as fixed.

Lauren Lee👩🏼‍💻Sep 22, 2026 • 8 min read

33 broken builds, one agent on each disposable computer. The hard part was deciding what counts as fixed.

First, give it to a robot Earlier this week, I wrote about how I built a tool to run every...

#agents#automation#softwaredevelopment#testing

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I Cut 2,490 Agent Test Runs to 206 and Kept the Same Coverage

Debashish GhosalSep 22, 2026 • 5 min read

I Cut 2,490 Agent Test Runs to 206 and Kept the Same Coverage

The full matrix was 83 agents × 30 scenarios = 2,490 runs. Each one a real LLM call, 30–80 seconds.....

#ai#programming#testing#llm

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RAG ranking is not the same as judging with Jev

Enrique BruzualSep 22, 2026 • 9 min read

RAG ranking is not the same as judging with Jev

How I went from "Trust me, bro" to "boomer with receipts" using Jev By separating...

#rag#testing#llm#ai

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The Benchmark That's Half Traps — and Why That's Brilliant

Ali Afana Sep 24, 2026 • 9 min read

The Benchmark That's Half Traps — and Why That's Brilliant

There's a test suite for security scanners where 47% of the test cases are deliberately designed to....

#security#testing#benchmarking#java

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About 1,800 tests passed. Running the real app found 14 bugs

SerhiiSep 22, 2026 • 9 min read

About 1,800 tests passed. Running the real app found 14 bugs

My last post about Filament Studio was about v1.2.0 and multilingual content, back in April. Since....

#laravel#php#testing#webdev

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What Protobuf descriptors don't tell you: building a generic mock generator

MaksimSep 25, 2026 • 6 min read

What Protobuf descriptors don't tell you: building a generic mock generator

I built a library that generates mock data for any Protobuf message without per-message code. The sc...

#protobuf#typescript#testing#opensource

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My CI hadn't run a single one of those tests in two months and stayed green the whole time

Juan Camilo AuritiSep 23, 2026 • 3 min read

My CI hadn't run a single one of those tests in two months and stayed green the whole time

I added a dependency to a test helper and forgot to declare it in the dev extra. Locally it was...

#testing#python#devops#webdev

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How I Migrated 90 Cypress Tests to Playwright With Claude Code in 4 Days

yureki_labSep 19, 2026 • 7 min read

How I Migrated 90 Cypress Tests to Playwright With Claude Code in 4 Days

TL;DR I moved a 90-spec Cypress suite to Playwright in 4 working days using Claude Code....

#ai#claudecode#playwright#testing

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Week 14 of #100DaysOfCode: Completing JUnit 5 and Starting a New Portfolio

Onatade AbdulmajeedSep 20, 2026 • 18 min read

Week 14 of #100DaysOfCode: Completing JUnit 5 and Starting a New Portfolio

Introduction This week was another productive part of my #100DaysOfCode journey, with a...

#100daysofcode#testing#backend#ai

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How monday.com Runs Agent Evals Against Real Dependencies: Webinar Recap

Arsh SharmaSep 21, 2026 • 7 min read

How monday.com Runs Agent Evals Against Real Dependencies: Webinar Recap

An agent eval suite's outcome can only be trustworthy if it's operating in an environment similar to...

#ai#testing#llm#agents

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lucifer911Sep 20, 2026 • 4 min read

Four bugs my test suite couldn't catch

216 passing tests. A feature that was completely broken. Here is the gap between those two facts, an...

#testing#webdev#rust#privacy

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Build a Reproducible AI Agent Evaluation Lab with Docker Compose

Raju DandigamSep 21, 2026 • 4 min read

Build a Reproducible AI Agent Evaluation Lab with Docker Compose

An agent evaluation fails in CI but passes locally. Before blaming the model, ask whether both runs....

#docker#ai#testing#devops

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Anusha MukkaSep 22, 2026 • 8 min read

Your AI Agent Needs a Chaos Monkey

One-off red teams go stale the week your agent's tools change. Borrow chaos engineering's playbook i...

#ai#security#agents#testing

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I Tried to Break My Robot Accountant (So Nobody Else Could)

Mursal Furqan KumbharSep 21, 2026 • 21 min read

I Tried to Break My Robot Accountant (So Nobody Else Could)

Ciao Amici 👋 Make some chai, because the robot accountant is back, and this time I am the one...

#aws#ai#testing#security

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The Negative Test That Passed for the Wrong Reason

Hardcore EngineerSep 19, 2026 • 4 min read

The Negative Test That Passed for the Wrong Reason

Last february we swapped our embedding model from text-embedding-3-small to bge-large, thinking...

#debugging#llm#rag#testing

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Making API Performance Tests More Realistic: From Endpoint Metrics to Role-Based Journeys

Christoph HermannsSep 23, 2026 • 11 min read

Making API Performance Tests More Realistic: From Endpoint Metrics to Role-Based Journeys

Daniel Balcarek's article API Performance Testing: How to Design Realistic Tests makes a...

#testing#performance#api#webdev

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I Injected the Same Failures Into 5 MCP SDKs. Here’s What I Found.

L Anil Kumar SinghaSep 19, 2026 • 6 min read

I Injected the Same Failures Into 5 MCP SDKs. Here’s What I Found.

I've been building MCP Failure Lab, a deterministic failure-injection toolkit for testing Model...

#mcp#opensource#programming#testing

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Agentic Test Creation: From Plain-Language Requirements to End-to-End Test Cases

John VesterSep 21, 2026 • 9 min read

Agentic Test Creation: From Plain-Language Requirements to End-to-End Test Cases

Throughout my career, I've watched sprints stall in the same place. Everything was going fine: the.....

#ai#testing#programming#tutorial

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69% of my coding agent's "done" claims weren't. Here is the gate I put in front of them.

Raimondas LenceviciusSep 21, 2026 • 5 min read

69% of my coding agent's "done" claims weren't. Here is the gate I put in front of them.

"Done. All 48 tests pass and the auth refactor is complete." I have read that sentence hundreds of...

#ai#opensource#testing#claude

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The Best Engineers I Know Don't Write Unit Tests

Tarek Mostafa Sep 25, 2026 • 4 min read

The Best Engineers I Know Don't Write Unit Tests

Last year, a critical payment processing service went completely silent during Black Friday traffic....

#ai#programming#softwareengineering#testing

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