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A month ago, I gave a colleague an assignment. They were to create typescript playwright automation using Github Copilot and Playwright Agents. While making progress on the tests was important, learning to use agents to support with that work was just as important.

We had a scope ...

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In the lovely world of consulting, I find myself classifying the types of engagements I work with. While Product / System Testing holds a special place in my heart with the close collaboration with teams building the product together, I come often to a table where the Product is platform product, the building is configuring and specially constrained programming, a...

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It was June 2024, and I was preparing to meet a journalist for an interview due to my recent appointment as Director for AI-Driven Application Testing at CGI Finland. The journalist drove the interview with two requests: 

  • Demo and show! 
  • What is our approach at CGI on this
  • New to the company, it took me a bit of reflecting on what is o...

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    Dual-purpose thinking is big in the world right now. Dual-purpose technologies are innovations with application for both civilian and military uses, such as AI, drones and cybersecurity perspectives with any software we rely on. A few mentions of these in a conference I was listening in to, and my mind was building connections to using dual-purpose to explain exploratory test...

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    Back in my early days of testing, a common storyline was that we were messengers with information, and we would leave it for others to decide on what they would do with that information. Over the years, it started to bother me. 

    We, testers, were taught the fine art of formulating our information as questions, leading those with decision power to the insights. Crea...

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