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Four phases, four walls: how I built a production app with zero iOS experience

I'll start with the part I didn't think I'd get to write so soon: as of today, BowSmith is live on the App Store. Zero iOS experience when I started. A real, shippable archery app today.

Show, don't tell: watching one request fall through the orchestration stack

Everyone wants to argue about which model is best. It's the wrong argument. The interesting question isn't "which model" — it's "what happens at the seams between them." So instead of telling you how the three-tier stack works, I'm going to show you. One real request, followed the whole way down.

How a QA professional with zero iOS experience built a production app using AI – and what I learned about the future of software delivery

I have spent 20 years in software testing and quality assurance. I knew almost nothing about iOS development. Zero Swift experience. Yet here I am, 18 months later, with a production-ready iOS app approaching alpha launch.

Show Me the Receipts: What Machine-to-Machine Fluency Actually Looks Like

A real trace through the stack — Opus Max/Fable(MIA) → Opus (high/medium) → Sonnet. One fuzzy idea, turned into a spec, decomposed into tasks, and shipped — and why the hand-offs are the part that matters.

Fable 5 Talks to Machines Better Than to People — And That's Exactly Why It Matters

Fable 5 Talks to Machines Better Than to People — And That's Exactly Why It Matters First notes after one day of testing Anthropic's new Fable 5, and why I think it belongs above Opus in the orchestration stack — not buried inside a flat subscription.

That's it, 2025 wrapped, and 2026 plans

2025: A Year of Stages, Roads, and New Horizons As I sit down to reflect on 2025, I'm struck by how this year stretched me in directions I never anticipated. It was a year of standing on stages across three continents, driving thousands of miles through the American

Meet BowSmith: An Archery App Born from AI and Obsession

What happens when an archer with too many ideas meets AI-powered coding tools? An experiment that became an app. English The Short Version BowSmith is an iOS app for bow archers and 3D shooters. It helps you track your equipment, calculate arrow setups, generate sight tapes, and keep your

A Decade of test:fest – My Conference Speaking Journey

10 editions, 10 years, countless memories In 2025 we had the 10th edition of test:fest, and oh boy what a milestone it was!! Many of us have heard the Testing Station podcast with Marta Firlej that our Test:Fest moves to a meetup direction in 2026. That I why

HUSTEF 2025 - one of top 3 conferences in Europe

I was back at Hustef after my talk in 2018 where I was and expert in automation combined with security scanners, now 7 years and pandemic later I had the prieledge to present a framework for remote leadership for teams. However before we go th the presentations and keynotes on

Introducing online "Quality Coffee" - A Virtual Space for Quality Enthusiasts

Are you passionate about quality? Qality management or quality engineering? Do you look for a discussion or yellowduck with like-minded professional? Look no further! I want toshare with You an opportunity to book online "Quality Coffee," a virtual meeting to discuss all quality related topics and questions.

The Critical Role of Software Maturity: Beyond Code Quality to Strategic Excellence

Understanding Software Maturity: More Than Just Good Code Software maturity is a strategic imperative that separates industry leaders from the rest. It's a holistic measure of an organization's ability to consistently deliver high-quality, reliable, and adaptable software solutions. At its core, software maturity represents the

Quality Management and Quality Assurance are related but distinct concepts in ensuring product and service excellence.

Let's break down their key differences: Quality Assurance (QA) Core Focus: * Preventive approach to quality * Ensuring processes are designed correctly to prevent defects * Establishing standards and methodologies * Systematic monitoring of product development processes Key Characteristics: * Proactive strategy * Focuses on process improvement * Implemented throughout the entire product lifecycle * Aims

The Strategic Value of Quality Engineering: Measuring and Visualizing Software Quality

#QualityEngineering #SoftwareQuality #TechSkills #TechLeadership #TechStrategy #ProductQuality #DigitalTransformation #BusinessTechnology #ContinuousImprovement #DataDrivenDecisions #MetricsDriven #ProductManagement #EnterpriseIT

Pacific North West Software Quality Conference, Portland Oregon US.

2nd event on my 2nd half of 2024 season was a visit to West Coast of US. I had the privilege to be the speaker on the Pacific North West Software Quality Conference and it was the 42nd edition of the conference !! The conference is older than myself !! The Pacific

QA & Test - much more than just Embedded Software Conference in Bilbao Spain.

This year, 2024 second part of the conference season for me was very interesting but much compressed as I visited 2 conferences that were totally new for me in a period of 10 days. The first one was the 23rd edition of QA&Test in Bilbao Spain. I was

October 2024 - Conference season restarts !!

October 2024 - Conference season restarts

"QA or the Highway" - great event in Columbus, Ohio.

Last week I had a great opportunity to spend a few days in US and visit the “QA or the Highway” 10th anniversary edition in Columbus Ohio. It was possible thanks to the great support from the conference organisers and SJSI - Polish Testing Board who helped me significantly with the logistics.

KPIs, dashboards and metrics

Many of You asked about the presentation slides I used on TestFest 2022 about metrics and dashboards. Unfortunately despite I promised to share the slides, then I forgot about it. Good news are that I had extended the slides while running similar workshop on TestWarez 2022 and also got recording

Test:Fest Conference 2023

Test:Fest 2023 the best FREE conference in Europe

Konferencje 2023 - czas start

Hej, Witamy w nowym 2023. Juz za kilka dni zaczynamy nowy sezon konferencyjny a w zwiazku z tym ze zaczynam go od konferencji w Polsce, to wyjatkowo post w naszym jezyku.. Mam nadzieje ze ten rok nie ulegnie juz restrykcjom sanitarnym i spokojnie podziałamy wspólnie na konferencjach. Moj plan na

Great Quality Engineering related podcast episode at QA Lead

If You are interested in Quality Engineering and Leadeing QA teams. Then this is a must listen position for You. Many interesing insights about metrics, leadership, transformations in QA analysis, QA centre of Excelence, QA technology and process enablement and more.. It is only 40 minutes packed with interesting views

My recent top 3 TEDs

I finally get some time off to spend with the TED talks and wanted to recommend to You some of my top 3 favourites:

SeeTest 2022 - Sofia

SeeTest 2022, my feelings and slides from my presentation. Not my first SeeTest and defenetly not my last one.

Software Testing podcast that I found and love

The Testing Peers concept has come from a WhatsApp chat set up between a small group of passionate testers who wanted to have a network to collaborate with, share ideas, encourage and hold each other accountable.

TestFest 2022

KPIs vs Metrics vs statistic – how to measure for decisions not for numbers

Conferences are restarting !!

Hi folks, Great news, in 2022 in Europe and whole World there has been a restart for offline conferences and it is great news. I already had great opportunity to visit: * TestFest in Wroclaw * QA:Expo in Madrid Got plans for: * TestWarez in Łódź * TestCon in Vilnous * SeeTest in Sofia

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"

> It may be time consuming and sometimes painful, but improving your own people is likely the best strategy in a labor market that's as tight as the current one is. Changing Others Is The Most Important Capability A Leader Can DevelopIt may be time consuming and sometimes

Re-post: "What follows after the Eureka Moment: Consulting for Innovation Start-ups"

"Innovation start-ups are a practical starting point for familiarising yourself with the industry, since they rarely have the budgets for hiring major strategy firms, and therefore often welcome volunteer consultants. In addition, such small-scale clients allow greater insight and deeper involvement with the entirety of the project

Re-post: "Selenium PageObjects and PageFactory"

This article discusses the Selenium PageObjects and PageFactory design pattern and a factory class from WebDriver support libraries. I believe this is a very robust way to model your tests. The way this design pattern is formulated, it becomes easier making changes to the flow, logic or the UI test

Re-Post: "Software Testing is Evolving, Here's How"

Jamaal Tod did a great insight about: > Break down traditional QA silos and empower developers to own quality checks. Feeling interested, just jump to the link below: Software Testing Is Evolving, Here’s HowBreak down traditional QA silos and empower developers to own quality checks.MediumJamaal Todd [https://qatoddy.

SQA days #26, Minsk 2019

Another new conference in my portfolio. I decided to try to go to Belarus conference to visit a new coutry/capital and look at the conference organization of conferencce that has over 25 editions. Misnsk was a suprise, so many lights. Like electricity is for free. Lot of moder cars,

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

Re-Post: "What? Why? How? of LEAN Testing"

If You are interested in Lean Testing, take a look at the teaser and jump to the full article: > Here comes my post, answering very common yet significant questions [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6300676678834364416] asked by many Rookie testers when trying to learn How

Re-post: "Skills as a System"

Skills as a System

SEETEST 2019, Bucarest

In those hard covet times, when most of the testing events are postponed or moved online, I feel it is a great moment to do some retrospective reviews of conferences I got the chance to speak on. https://seetest.org/index.php?page=seetest-2019 In the year 2019 I

Konferencja testerzy.pl, Gdansk 2019

Testerzy.pl conference in Gdansk 2019

LuczniczQA 2019

After a long break I deduced to also visit some meet-ups in Poland. Thanks to Sebastian one of hem awl LuczniczQA in Bydgoszcz. It a not so large as the ones in Warsaw or Wroclaw however has great diversity of people and their background. They are all very interested

TestCon Europe November 2019

My two presentation at TestCon 2019 and why I love to visit that conference.

One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever

One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever in Munich InnovationHub

"Let's solve IT" mentoring

I am more than happy to share with You that one of the new challenges I had put myself into this year is to support the mentoring program for "Let's solve IT". Here is my details page as a mentor: Michał Buczko – Let’s solve IT!

Re-post: Latest Trends In Software Test Automation

One of the ongoing trends in the QA industry for the last few years has been Test Automation and Continuous Testing, and this trend is going to continue in 2019 as well. While CI/CD, DevOps and Test Frameworks will remain prominent themes in the coming year, several new technologies

Re-post: Pragmatic Front-End Testing Strategies (3)

In part two of this series [https://medium.com/@toastui/pragmatic-front-end-testing-strategies-2-4f459bdf343a] , we’ve dealt with using Storybook to automate portions of the visual testing. To refresh our memory, let’s recapitulate our Todo application’s processing stages. 1. Display the default UI when the

Re-post: Pragmatic Front-End Testing Strategies (2)

In the first part of this series [https://medium.com/@toastui/pragmatic-front-end-testing-strategies-1-4a969ab09453] I discussed the importance of test automation and testing strategies, and why it is difficult to automate visual component testing. While it is not impossible to automate the visual quality assurance process,

Re-post: Pragmatic Front-End Testing Strategies (1)

This article is the first of a series of three articles. Part 1: Necessity of Pragmatic Front-End Testing Strategies Part 2: Testing Visual Components Using Storybook [https://medium.com/@toastui/pragmatic-front-end-testing-strategies-2-4f459bdf343a] Part 3: Testing Logic in State Management Using Cypress [https://medium.com/

Re-post: How to Test Your Frontend with the Cypress.io Framework

How to Test Your Frontend with the Cypress.io Framework

Re-post: The Test Pyramid

Thoughts on the test pyramid, end-to-end tests and achieving high test coverage from nothing.

Re-post: 16 best products of CES 2020 by Business insider

As CES 2020 draws to a close, we're reflecting on our short time in Las Vegas attending the show with our picks of the overall best products on display at the show. We've seen dozens if not hundreds of new products this week, so none of these were easy choices to make..

My 2019 in a nutshell

Everyone uses the opportunity to sum up their year, so influenced by them I also decided to share my summary. What went good? 1. I got nominated as tester of the year by testrzy.pl - thanks great prize for the effort pushed to conferencing. Thanks also to Objectivity for supporting

Re-post: "A Redesigned Steering Wheel For Self-Driving Cars"

Teague’s designers are interested in a world where safety isn’t solely in the hands of automakers–it’s also every community’s collective responsibility. Teague technical director Warren Schramm believes that we have to “decide that it’s not a product decision and it’s our moral standard.

Re-post: "The real Revolution is Self-Driving Infrastructure"

The hype around self-driving cars keeps reaching new heights, with most pundits focusing on their immediate innovation and novelty. Intel’s recent $15 billion acquisition of Mobileye, which makes self-driving sensors and software, illustrates the immense potential of this opportunity. It also highlights, however, what many have yet

Re-post: How Do Collision Avoidance Systems Work?

Driving is a lot more complex than we typically consider when we get behind the wheel each day. But chances are you’ve had a moment — a car that suddenly brakes in front of you, an animal darting into the street, a distraction that pulls your attention away — where you

Re-share: 7 Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals

You have just sat down for the evening in your study at home to write an important article. Your friend calls you on the phone, “Tom, what are you doing right now? Come for dinner!” The article is not due tomorrow, and discussion with your friend is always lively and

Re-share: How Companies Should Manage Their Innovation Portfolios

The leadership challenge for today’s companies is managing innovation in the context of their current business. This article will illustrate innovation management best practice through a case study with original data from the German company Bayer. We argue that when making investments in innovation, leaders cannot pick the winning

Re-share: Releasing agility in teams

[...] Am I really working in agile? I’ve worked in the “agile” world for too many years (I know I don’t look that old but I am – it’s the immature haircut that does it) and have always been perpetually amused and despondent by the belief by so many

Re-share: Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews

While code review is recognized as a valuable tool [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3183525] for improving the quality of software projects, code review comments that are perceived as being unclear or harsh can have unfavorable consequences: slow reviews, blocked dependent code reviews, negative emotions, or negative perceptions

Re-share: Realizing Value from Test Automation –> VALUE vs. ROI

As we are ready to close another decade of software development and testing, it is in my opinion also a great time to get rid of legacy and outdated terms and methods – in this short post, I would try and eliminate the term ROI and recommend replacing it with Value.

Re-share: Adapting Agile For Part-Time Teams

Agile has had a long time to infiltrate software development. While the methodology advocates for “co-located, dedicated teams,” in its ubiquity Agile is frequently applied to teams partially or fully composed of part-time workers. While there are lessons to be taken from the practice, Agile must be adapted

Testing United 19-23.11.2018, Bratislava - Slovakia

Testing United 2018 This was the biggest surprise for me in 2018. A new conference organized in Bratislava, Slovakia. However the concept is to share 3 capitals as locations. For 2019 Vienna, Austria will be the venue, and the year after it will be held in Prague, Czechia. I have

TestWarez, Zakopane 14-16.11.2018

TestWarez is the biggest testing conference in Poland, organized by SJSI, with an afterparty to remember. However back to the presentations, there are always huge space for keynotes and multiple tracks available. At that conference there was dedicated track for Security testing, Mobile testing and Test Leadership. There were many

Belgrade Test Conference 9-10.11.2018

Belgrade Test Conference [https://bg-testconference.rs/] was my next stop in 2018 public speaking marathon. A city full of surprises, but with great atmosphere. This conference was something totally new for me and first one in this region so no idea what to expect. We spend a great few

HUSTEF 28.10-1.11 Budapest, Hungary

Just few days after the Agile By Example, there was time for the one of the most anticipated conference in 2018. I only heard great things about it and there is was the HUSTEF in Budapest, Hungary. Before moving to the conference experience, first I want to give a big

AgileByExample 2018, 22-24.10 Warsaw Poland

My next stop was a bit out of the box for me. I finally got my change to try some bread outside of QA conferences world. I got invited to Agile By Example 2018. One of few Agile conferences that I never visited as attendee, but only hear great stories

TestCon, Vilnius 15-19.10.2018

First things first. Sorry for running out of schedule with my articles about visited conferences, it was a really busy Fall and Winter. Hope to share a bit more details about it in 2018 year retrospective. Next step on my Eastern Europe trip was Vilnius. Thanks to the people behind

TAPOST Riga & Tesena Prague 2-4.10.2018

TAPOST - Theory and Practice of Software Testing, that was my next stop of this year conference train. To be honest I only know the name TAPOST, newer searched what is behind the label. Once arrived at the venue, first thing that I noticed was that attendees and speakers are a

Great people to meet, great stories to tell

Did You ever wonder why speakers love what they do? Why do they submit to Call for Papers of accept invitations for conferences? The true keys are People and Stories. Visiting conferences is a great place to meet new PEOPLE. To make new friendships with other speakers, attendees, organization committee.

TestCon Moscow, Russia 14-17.04.2018

This conference was a total surprise for me. In early 2018 I did a security scanners presentation on Test:Dive in Krakow, I felt it was not good enough delivery and got a lot improvement actions for myself. Suddenly I got a telephone call form DataMiners, they had seen the

Tesena Fest - Prague 4-5 October 2018

Straight form Riga I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Prague, Czechia. It was possible thanks to the chance to be part of Tesena Fest. I shared with the audience my experience on introduction of automated security scanners to webdriver test automation. Had a great blast in Prague. I

QA Fest, Kiev Ukraine 2018

During last week I had the privilege to represent Objectivity [https://www.facebook.com/ObjectivityLtd/?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARALkr0xU4V2y6-uCotVm3Lwu8uLy7tleUxKM_aXpYPQfBRDRFQiNJKuzZ1abbbTrt1DBkIJSlo6xAVur3JjDDXxr7H9Wv1D5gKbRMp9RplTdmNplOtDJurcmkReml8EdcJ6hmGtJI1qS1F6GAOZnQGafk0dlFVY-SALKtHqJxULhEMLMK_QrA&eid=ARBqLxyFiNIqijlITifNc2h9emSmjgfCwBofDhVtO3kCw_1kJDZdAo6DhWeclAwaG6R4dZQzPVoQvYmW] at the 5th anniversary of Ukraine biggest QA conference QA Fest [https://www.facebook.com/qafest/?__xts__%5B

Quality Excites, Gliwice 22-23.06.2018

Gliwice, another nice spot on south of Poland with another great free conference Quality Excites organized with the support of Future Processing organization. With testers from all over Poland visiting Gliwice for the weekend. Nice keynote guest speakers like @Rob Lambert and top of polish speakers scene it was a