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48 articles published Written by practicing QE engineers Updated Jun 2026
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MethodologyEssay
The test pyramid was built for code. Agents need a different shape.
Coverage and pass-rate stop meaning much once behaviour is probabilistic. A field-tested model for what to measure instead.
Lena VasquezJun 2, 2026 · 9 min
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AI AssuranceAnalysis
Why your RAG pipeline passes eval and still hallucinates in prod.
Retrieval looks healthy in the test harness, then drifts under real traffic. Where the gap opens, and the evidence that closes it.
Marcus OkaforMay 28, 2026 · 11 min
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Non-FunctionalEssay
Non-functional debt is the silent killer of regulated releases.
Performance and resilience get deferred until an audit forces them. A way to make that debt visible before it ships.
Ravi KapoorMay 21, 2026 · 8 min
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MethodologyPlaybook
What a QE Pod actually signs off on — and what it won't.
A sign-off is a claim someone stands behind. The exact boundary of what our Pods accept accountability for.
Lena VasquezMay 15, 2026 · 7 min
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AI AssuranceField Report
We ran 4,100 adversarial prompts at a banking bot. Here's the trail.
The full method behind the featured report — taxonomy, scoring rubric, and the transcripts that decided the release.
Marcus OkaforJun 4, 2026 · 14 min
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UX EngineeringEssay
Accessibility is a quality signal, not a compliance checkbox.
Teams that treat WCAG as a gate ship inaccessible products that technically pass. Treating it as a quality signal changes the work.
Sofia AlvarezMay 9, 2026 · 6 min
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MethodologyEssay
TestOps without the dashboard theatre.
Most "quality dashboards" measure activity, not risk. What a TestOps surface looks like when it answers the only question that matters: can we ship?
Ravi KapoorMay 2, 2026 · 10 min
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Field ReportsField Report
Shadowing a release train at 11× peak: what broke, what held.
A week embedded with a payments team during a load event. The failures that mattered weren't the ones the alerts fired on.
Ravi KapoorApr 24, 2026 · 12 min

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