
A simple list of software testing conferences and workshops published collaboratively with the testing community. Created by @ckenst
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My latest article “What Have You Built With AI? Is Becoming a Hiring Question” got a mention!
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The 327th issue is out!
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Congrats @petewalen, @ailuj876, @jlottosen, @glenndynaminet, @ckenst, @rachellaycock, @filip_hric, @reallymello, @greenreportblog, @mfaisal_khatri, @kakkyon, @eviltester and @alexusadays!
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Earlier this year, a job application asked me: “What have you built with AI?” I didn’t have a great answer and that bothered me.
Since then, I’ve spent more time building small tools, experimenting, and documenting what I learn. One of those projects now saves me real time.
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Inside your chatbots, do you archive old conversations when you're done with them, or do you just let them pile up and ignore the chaos?
Asking for a friend... 😅
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I just read an article that said a typical QA / testing process looks something like this:
Jira ticket → Write test cases → Execute manually → Attach report to Jira → Automate regression cases.
Please make sure your process doesn’t look like this.
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Yesterday I started writing about how quickly I closed a skill gap by getting Claude to help write component tests.
The more interesting lesson: when AI lowers the cost of trying something, “can I do this?” matters less than “should I?”
Full story: kenst.com/ai-and-the-declini…
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📅 We're live tomorrow! See how #AITestAgents can create tests from plain English, adapt automatically when apps change, and help teams spend less time maintaining automation. Save your spot today. 🔗 testguild.com/webinar/from-z… #QA #AITesting #AIAgents @Thunders_AI
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I’m listening to Addy Osmani and he’s describing the difference between Vibe Coding and AI Engineering.
It makes a lot of sense to me:
- Vibe coding: you don’t look at the code, you go with the vibes
- AI Engineering: You accelerate with AI but the human directs the work
TestingConferences retweeted
OnlineTestConf's Call for Speakers is now open! Join the 39 speakers who previously shared their insights with the testing community at OnlineTestConf before becoming recognized industry speakers. Submit your proposal by July 14.
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The latest edition of @testconferences newsletter is out today. It contains:
- 4 months of upcoming conferences 🎟️
- 17 conferences with discounts on tickets 💰
- 5 open Calls for Papers
You can read it online and subscribe if you like the content: mailchi.mp/87d8e2c4dd55/apri…
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At some point soon, we're going to have to admit that we no longer truly understand the systems we're building.
Companies are openly bragging that their developers don't bother looking at the code their agents produce; and it's so much of it, that code reviews have become a passive thumbs up.
Even without AI generated features, modern systems are already extremely complex which makes it challenging to debug, especially in areas where you're not a subject matter expert.
Now is not the time to slack on observability. If anything, the need just went up. We have to be able to properly investigate incidents when they inevitably occur.
I like Honeycomb Canvas for this because it gives me an interactive workspace where I can explore and debug in natural language without manually piecing together queries across telemetry data.
"Why was the checkout flow so slow yesterday?"
"Customers are complaining about site crashes. Help me figure out what's wrong."
"There are reports of an outage... how widespread is this?"
Canvas runs queries on your traces and structured events, giving you visualizations to help you quickly get to the root of the issue. It'll even suggest follow ups if you're not sure where to look next.
My favorite usage is @'ing the Canvas Slack bot to pull insights right into team discussions 👌🏽
If you're not already using Canvas, it's definitely worth checking out: fandf.co/4djGo6k
Shoutout to the good folks @honeycombio for the collaboration. Really enjoying Canvas, and I've been playing around with the MCP server too :)
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From @QANewsletter
“Chris Kenst inherited a 2,500-test Cypress suite that takes 45 hours to run and explains why automating everything leads to pain”
Yup!
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The 310th issue is out!
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Congrats @testpappy, @keithklain, @testerfromleic, @reallymello, @ckenst, @JitGo, @GreenReportBlog, @kailashpathak7, @GorodkovVi85373, @vitpotapov, @aiwithanton, @dnlkntt, @artembondar, @alexusadays!
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I’ve had quite a few conversations wherein I describe my findings with the AI tools I’m experimenting with. These findings will change as I alternate my default tools and bring in new ones (hence the name of this article). Today I recorded them.
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Search for a job right now vs a few years ago is trip.
When the market is hot, you get actively recruited.
When the market is cool, you have to actively recruit for yourself.
It can take a while to figure out how to do this. #JOBLIFE #jobhunting
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Version 1.0.10 of the @Mailinator JavaScript SDK is now live! I've been publishing updates for the last several weeks that slowly add functionality and fix bugs.
I've explicitly marked versions from older than a year ago as deprecated so you'll get a warning about using them.
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I’m currently diving into Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by @sarah_edo and even at 18% in, I'm making notes.
Starting the audiobook and hearing @techgirl1908 reading the foreword was such a fantastic surprise! 👏
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I’m having fun playing with and learning @goose_oss.
I gave goose a list of urls of old docs I’m updating. I asked goose to scrape the docs (used playwright ext), grab the text and save them.
Then asked goose to clean up the inconsistent style and tone.
Baby steps!
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Check out @mailinator’s new docs. I wrote up an article explaining some of the new things to expect.
- Better navigation
- Using api.mailinator.com as the base url
- New API endpoints documented
- Much more coming
New Mailinator Documentation is live. Check out the article!
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#qatestingtools #MFAtesting #OTPtesting #emailtesting #loadtesting @QATestingTools














