Sergio Freire

A creative thinker. Telco sw/hw/networking background. Nowadays trying to make great companies products even better with testing in Jira. Thoughts & views mine.

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Bumped the compatibility with latest Playwright 1.60 released recently on the playwright-junit-reporter with version 0.13.0! Check it out and have a great weekend ahead :)

https://t.co/eLBO4RObSS

#softwaretesting #playwright #xray #jira #testautomation @XrayApp @playwrightweb

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Join me today on this free webinar "Ship with confidence: Agentic AI-Driven Quality with Rovo Dev and Xray". I'll blend a bit development and testing, together :D

https://t.co/GoxnE1omAG

#testing #softwaretesting #quality #rovodev #atlassian #mot #AI #xray

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Just released an update for the integration between Xray and JUnit adding the support for JUnit 6! xray-junit-extensions was bumped to 1.0.0 :) Check the release notes https://t.co/MXgLr1vYqs!
#testautomation #xray #junit #junit6 #QA #quality #softwaretesting #testing

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

@XrayApp

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Always a great day to make another open-source release for the

#opensource #testing community. New compatibility with Playwright 1.56 on the playwright-junit-reporter with version 0.10.0 :) Check it out :)

https://t.co/BuntfYZt0r

#softwaretesting #playwright #xray #jira Xray

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Isabel Evans presenting the IDEA-T concept based on research in the #testing space

#testbash

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Learning more about #testing systems adopting €AI with @CarlosKidman at #testbash

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Just made a quick sightseeing in Carisbrooke Castle and tomorrow I'll meet many #testing friends at the pre #TestBash event at Brighton. I hope to share and learn with many of you from this great Ministry of Testing community!
See you soon!

#softwaretesting #quality #xray

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Just released a new version of the Javascript/TypeScript library that provides a client API for interacting with @XrayApp right from your code. It's mainly a maintenance release; check xray-automation-js v0.4.0 :)
#xray #testautomation #softwaretesting

https://t.co/84MliyVFkx

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Just released a new update for the integration between Xray and JUnit5, with contributions from the #opensource community! Kudos to them: xray-junit-extensions 0.11.0! More info: https://t.co/JycazseK38

#testautomation #xray #junit #junit5 #QA #quality #softwaretesting #testing

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

@playwrightweb v1.55 was released few hours ago, and I just released a new, compatible version of playwright-junit-reporter that provides a close integration with @XrayApp! Enjoy, and happy #testing!

https://t.co/BuntfYZt0r

#testautomation #playwright #softwaretesting

[steve hsu @hsu_steve]

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?

... Our results reveal that CoT reasoning is a brittle mirage that vanishes when it is pushed beyond training distributions. This work offers a deeper understanding of why and when CoT reasoning fails, emphasizing the ongoing challenge of achieving genuine and generalizable reasoning.

... Our findings reveal that CoT reasoning works effectively when applied to in-distribution or near
in-distribution data but becomes fragile and prone to failure even under moderate distribution shifts.
In some cases, LLMs generate fluent yet logically inconsistent reasoning steps. The results suggest that what appears to be structured reasoning can be a mirage, emerging from memorized or interpolated patterns in the training data rather than logical inference.

... Together, these findings suggest that LLMs are not principled reasoners but rather sophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text.

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

OpenAI has released a guide on how to finetune their open-source models:

https://t.co/jtYCh1hGYh

[elvis @omarsar0]

Comprehensive Taxonomy of LLM Hallucinations

Nice report covering common hallucinations, root causes, and mitigation strategies.

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

@playwrightweb 1.54 was just released and so was the new version (0.7.0) of the playwright-junit-reporter, boosting the integration between @XrayApp and #Playwright!
Check it out at https://t.co/BuntfZ00PZ

#testautomation #softwaretesting #testing #QA

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

Just released version 0.5.0 of our integration with latest version 1.51 of #testing framework #Playwright! This allows users to use most recent innovations to perform their automated tests, integrating these results into Jira and @XrayApp
https://t.co/gUkQcLaXqz

#testautomation

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

The meaning of life is a profound philosophical question that has been pondered for centuries. It often involves seeking purpose, understanding existence, and finding fulfillment.

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

@ckenst Hi, Sergio Freire here :) Always a thinker, a dreamer, a curious mind that loves making products and that always promote quality as a built-in mindset. I work at Xray & I teach testing at University. I came up with the Omni Testing concept a few years ago https://t.co/uncmJIi372

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

My journey at Agile Testing Days is over for this year. It ended with a panel on AI with @tariq_king and @rahullko32. It was great to see many existing from this and on other #testing events, and new friends to add to that list. Wish y'all a safe return back home!

#agiletd

[Sergio Freire @darktelecom]

If you are at #agiletd, it's time to come to the Xray booth for the raffle to win an iPad! The iPad will be drawn exactly at 11h30am! Come slightly before. In case you haven't filled the challenge, you still have time!

#testing