A Gate That Works, and a Gate That Only Looks Like One
RPIQ, what belongs at each stage of a quality gate pipeline, and the four questions that separate a gate with teeth from expensive decoration.
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Opus 5: the middle ground I actually chose
The Speed Trap: AI Made Us Faster Than We Can Justify
The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis
CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate
I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.
BowFest 2026: what a field full of archers told me that no test suite could
My conferences
The arc ended on a stage: what a room of testers did to the thesis
The slides and the full talk breakdown live on the other track. This isn't that post. This is the other thing that happened at CAST26, and the reason this series ended on a stage at all: seven posts' worth of argument, finally standing in front of a room that got to push back.
CAST 2026 - Open season: what a room full of sceptics taught me about the quality gate
I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.
I lost my favourite tool and shipped faster anyway
BowSmith, one feature, fully orchestrated: the case study
Quality at machine speed: ~70,000 tests, static analysis, and the review bias nobody warns you about
Where the three-tier stack was overkill: an honest retrospective
Library
Re-post: "Leading In An Unpredictable World"
> Three ways business leaders can drive both growth and innovation in today’s
fast-evolving and unpredictable environment.By Jim Witham
[https://chiefexecutive.net/author/jimwitham1/] -September 24, 2021
> Innovation can—and does—happen anywhere and at any time.
> During the height of the pandemic, many businesses
Re-Post: "Changing Others Is The Most Important Capability A Leader Can Develop"
Re-post: "Selenium PageObjects and PageFactory"
Re-Post: "Software Testing is Evolving, Here's How"
Re-post: "Skills as a System"
Re-post: 16 best products of CES 2020 by Business insider
Re-share: 7 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals
Agile Teaming
Agile Lean Ireland, Dublin 2019
Thanks to the opportunity to be the speaker at Agile by Example 2018 in Warsaw I
met one of the organizators of the Agile Lean Ireland conference. He liked by
talk about effective cooperation of testers in developers in agile feature team
and give me the opportunity to share the
Konferencja testerzy.pl, Gdansk 2019
"Let's solve IT" mentoring
Re-share: Releasing agility in teams
Re-share: Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
Re-share: Adapting Agile For Part-Time Teams
Lean Testing
The Speed Trap: AI Made Us Faster Than We Can Justify
Last Saturday I promised a deeper look at what actually changes when AI enters the delivery lifecycle. This is it.
The short version: the hard part is no longer producing software. It is being able to say, with evidence, why the software you just produced is safe to ship.
I Wrote a Chapter About Trust. A Machine Helped Me Test the Argument.
The Critical Role of Software Maturity: Beyond Code Quality to Strategic Excellence
QA & Test - much more than just Embedded Software Conference in Bilbao Spain.
KPIs, dashboards and metrics
Re-Post: "Software Testing is Evolving, Here's How"
