📰 Dev.to · Tudor Brad

Your bug report got closed as 'Cannot Reproduce' again. Here's what's going wrong and how to write reports that survive first contact with a developer.

We run Cypress across dozens of client projects. Here are the patterns that kept making tests flaky and what we did about each one.

You know you should be doing security testing. Here's what the first engagement actually looks like, from a team that runs them.

We asked a developer why commits were still slow despite Copilot. The answer wasn't about AI at all.

A PM told our engineer to close a valid bug. Three weeks later the product owner found it in production. Independent QA exists for exactly this reason.

The argument for human QA isn't about job protection. It's that AI is bad at deciding what questions to ask.

Tester rotation, clients who hide bugs, and the time a PM told our engineer to close a valid defect. Honest notes from 8 years of outsourced QA.

We gave 50 QA engineers AI tools and watched what happened. Some of it was good. Some of it was a mess. Here's the honest version.

Two failed attempts, one that worked, and three things we'd rather not advertise. An honest look at building AI agents into a QA workflow.