Category: Testing

Test Guild

AI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills with Arthur Hicken

12 May 2026

AI cost overruns from large language models pose significant risks, including unexpected exponential expenses, hidden "token tax" costs, operational vulnerabilities, and testing challenges, requiring proactive management, human oversight, and structured validation to mitigate financial and performance pitfalls.

The Quality Beat

From QA metrics to release confidence

4 May 2026

QA reports should prioritize narrative-driven insights on business risks, system stability, and stakeholder-specific concerns over technical metrics, emphasizing coverage, confidence, and collaborative risk framing to inform leadership decisions.

BrowserStack Talks

Your entry point to Automated Testing Ft. Puja Jagani, BrowserStack

29 Apr 2026

Test automation requires a continuous, strategic approach with incremental steps like unit tests, prioritizing foundational testing pyramids, addressing flakiness through isolated tests, and balancing tool simplicity with project needs and evolving learning.

How To Test This?

How To Test With An Holistic Approach Lisa Crispin

29 Apr 2026

Focuses on holistic testing as a shared team responsibility across the SDLC, stressing collaboration, adaptability, user-centricity, balanced use of automation and human judgment, quality engineering, iterative practices, and systemic learning for long-term success.

The Vernon Richard Show

Testing isn't a specialism"? You keep using that word

27 Apr 2026

Examines whether testing is a specialized discipline or general skill, challenges dismissive views of its expertise, explores AI's potential to reshape testing roles, emphasizes human judgment's irreplaceability, addresses historical biases, and advocates for clarity and adaptability in an AI-driven industry.

How To Test This?

How To Test With ContextQA - Deep Barot

23 Apr 2026

The evolution of software testing highlights the shift from manual to AI-driven automated QA, emphasizing context-aware tools to address siloed teams, outdated methods, and inefficiencies while integrating cross-functional expertise, improving ROI up to 20x, and balancing automation with human judgment in a collaborative, adaptive QA future.

Software Testing Unleashed

Why Your CI Pipeline Is Lying to You - Simon Stewart

23 Apr 2026

Flaky tests in CI/CD pipelines undermine reliability by causing intermittent failures due to shared state, timing issues, and environmental inconsistencies, requiring strategies like test exclusion, ownership, and prioritized fixes, alongside prevention through rigorous pre-CI testing and layered approaches, while AI aids debugging but not replacement, emphasizing iterative improvements over emotional attachment to code.

The Engineering Quality Podcast

18: Not Accessible = Not Ready

22 Apr 2026

Recommended: Accessibility is something to remember.

Accessible digital design demands embedding inclusivity as a core value, prioritizing manual testing with real users, overcoming organizational and cultural barriers, and fostering leadership commitment to ensure proactive compliance and user-centered solutions over overhyped AI tools, addressing both ethical and economic imperatives.