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Why Quality Engineering Fails in Startups (And How to Fix It)

Why Quality Engineering Fails in Startups (And How to Fix It)

Every founder loves to talk about speed. “Move fast.” “Ship before you’re ready.” “Break things and fix later.” That mindset can build early traction. But when it comes to scaling a product that real customers depend on, it’s also the mindset that silently kills startups. The failure point

How Do You Test AI? A Guide for LLMs, Agents, and AI-Driven Systems

How Do You Test AI? A Guide for LLMs, Agents, and AI-Driven Systems

If you're building with AI and not testing it rigorously, you're not building a product; you’re running a science experiment on your users. Testing AI isn’t like testing traditional code. There’s no "green check" that tells you everything is fine. You’

Microservices Didn’t Kill Your Velocity; Your Lack of Test Observability Did

Microservices Didn’t Kill Your Velocity; Your Lack of Test Observability Did

Every engineering organization wants to move faster. So they break the monolith. Spin up microservices. Deploy independently. Celebrate continuous delivery. But soon, something feels off. Shipping slows down. CI pipelines get longer. Bugs show up between services, not inside them. And your team spends more time debugging tests than writing

Self-Healing Pipelines: The Future of Resilient Test Automation

Self-Healing Pipelines: The Future of Resilient Test Automation

Most automation engineers have lived through the nightmare: You merge a pull request, your CI/CD pipeline kicks off, and red lights everywhere. You dive in, and the cause isn’t a broken feature; it’s a locator change, a flaky wait, or a missing test fixture. That’s not

The Agentic QA Automation Loop; A Plain‑English Guide + Starter Blueprint

The Agentic QA Automation Loop; A Plain‑English Guide + Starter Blueprint

Why this matters: Traditional automation treats testing as a pile of scripts. Agentic automation treats it as a closed loop that learns from every run, plans the next move, and coordinates specialized “workers” (agents) to deliver higher coverage with less busywork. Below is a practical guide to each step in

The 5-Point QE Health Check

The 5-Point QE Health Check

When was the last time you took your Quality Engineering pulse? Not your CI/CD metrics. Not the number of test cases in Jira. I’m talking about an honest, five-minute check on whether your QE practice is healthy; or slowly bleeding out behind the scenes. Too often, teams equate

Being the Salmon in a River of Features: The QA Struggle Nobody Sees

Being the Salmon in a River of Features: The QA Struggle Nobody Sees

Some days in Quality Engineering feel like being a salmon in the middle of spawning season; swimming upstream against a relentless current, dodging rocks, avoiding predators, and leaping over waterfalls, all while everyone on the shore is cheering for the fishermen pulling in the catch. It’s a strange feeling