AI doesn't change anything about the fundamentals of testing. Inverting the pyramid to bet everything on E2E is going back 15 years. Essential read by Thierry de Pauw if you work in QA 📐
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2026/04/12/dont-let-ai-invert-the-testing-pyramid.html
🎙️ Next CTM Online: "Lead the testing" by Jesper Ottosen - 27 May, 7 PM Rome.
Growing into test leadership without a management title.
Join us!
https://www.continuoustestingmeetup.com/events/2026-05-27
🔍 "Self-healing" in test automation sounds great on paper but does it actually hold up? Some honest thoughts on the trade-offs worth reading before you commit to it.
From what I’ve seen over the years, tests that exercise a system through the graphical user interface are disproportionally likely to fail for reasons other than an actual, genuine product failure. Call them false positives, call them flaky tests, call them whatever you want.
Stop chasing 100% coverage, start asking "what could go wrong and how badly?"
Great short read on shifting from a coverage mindset to a risk mindset in testing. A reframe every QA engineer and manager should make.
🦆 https://shorturl.at/58toQ
🤖 Continuous Testing Meetup - Apr 15 @ 7PM CEST
"LLM evaluation: A live demo" with Anupam Krishnamurthy
Can you trust an AI to judge another AI? Live demo on RAG evaluation & prompt injection attacks.
Free online event 👉 https://www.continuoustestingmeetup.com/events/2026-04-15/
Think you're boosting your team or holding them back? This nice article reveals subtle signs of leaders who diminish vs multiply talent. In my view it's a must-read if you want to unlock real team potential 👇👇👇
https://blog.growthinstitute.com/the-edge/5-signs-leaders-diminishers-to-multipliers
Reminder that you can de-shittify your Google search by adding "-ai" or appending "&udm=14 to your query (see https://udm14.com/).
Duckduckgo also has noai.duckduckgo.com.
Bonus: your search comes back instantly.
Great leaders don't always have the answers: they ask the best questions 🧐💡
As Jackie Colburn points out, curiosity fuels creativity, trust, and better decisions.
Ask more. Assume less. Lead with questions. 🤝✨
Misalignment in digital projects often hides behind surface-level agreement. Cultural norms like politeness, power imbalance, and rushed decision-making lead to fragile consensus. Real alignment takes trust, open challenge, and shared definitions before delivery, not after.
Just added security tests to my Juice Shop portfolio project 🚀 🚀 🚀
Now OWASP ZAP scans run automatically in ephemeral Kubernetes environments, alongside performance testing with Locust.
The full pipeline simulates a company workflow:
- merge into master ➡️ deploy to Hetzner K8s cluster
- security testing with ZAP
- performance testing with Locust
- automatic teardown of the environment after tests
Proud to use this as part of my portfolio project 🫡
Check it out 👇
🔗 https://gitlab.com/aurelienlair/juice-shop
Jan Schaumann
