Alan Richardson

Software Development: Code, Test, Automate, Marketing
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[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Why do we still have dysfunctional organisations?Answers inside. Also some tool reviews and additional practice examples to improve your testing skills.

EvoMaster Review
Testing Fun and Games
Daybreak Blue
Software Testing Podcasts (Bumper crop)

https://t.co/ZC1BlvNdjd

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Fifty is a milestone... who'd a thunked I'd stick this out for this many newsletter editions. Systems Thinking, building teams of individuals, and working well with AI tools for mobile testing. I experimented with an API Fuzzing tool and more

https://t.co/aXDVZgig96

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

How do we handle uncertainty and the implementation of AI? Have we forgotten what quality means? (Did we actually learn about quality in the first place?) Automating microservices and helping AI operate more like a tester. All this and more...

https://t.co/v74VgTC22g

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

This newsletter contains thoughts on AI in Software Development and which roles and skills can thrive with AI, and how your API Testing might be impacted by misleading results from API Clients, HTTP Libraries and HTTP Proxies.

https://t.co/aBu1IJ1w67

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Tools and sites to play with. And more... all in the newsletter

Adding AI can be expensive
Recommended Tools I've been using
Getting out of Dependency Hell
Fun and Games with APIs
Software Testing Podcast Episodes

https://t.co/3bFHFSC6ur

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

A lot of API stuff this newsletter - because that's what I was working on last week.

Open API UIs
Open API for Testing
API Spector
Playwright Quiz
Delete your AI Context
Software Testing Podcasts

https://t.co/LQE9ZL490o

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Issue 45. Time passes. Thorin sings about gold. And we learn new things, sometimes scary things, about how people develop systems.

- Rogue Agents
- Is Human Review outdated?
- Docker re-invents Virtual Machines
- Software Testing Podcasts

https://t.co/RkEO7SGqAQ

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Local AI, and Open Source AI all make an appearance in this newsletter, along with lessons on questioning and collaborating that can help you work with humans (if you still have to do that).

Qualitative Research
Local AI
and more

https://t.co/Y2xuVJVFPR

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

A lot of coverage of harnesses and tools wrapping LLMS to have more control and oversight of the AI content in the newsletter:

Harness Engineering
AI Governance
Dark Factory Patterns
A Framework for Agents
Beliefs Impact Thinking

https://t.co/WrkISrhqA9

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

This newsletter edition has the higlights from my online feeds from the 1st to 7th july:

Developing with AI
Observability
Difficult Conversations
Dev Tools for Agents
Local AI With ODS
4th of July Bonuses
Software Testing Podcast Episodes

https://t.co/QF7YDpt5ZO

[The Testing Kit @TheTestingKit]

Hello everyone! 👋

The 221st issue on #SoftwareTesting is out.
👉 https://t.co/KASEGv5DpM

Great articles and resources by @NextLevelQA, @eviltester, @ailuj876, @QAInsights and more ! 👏

#QA #testing

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

When we use AI to augment our process we find ourselves acting in a technical leadership and management capacity so... here's some recommended content on automating, AI, and leadership.

https://t.co/bLshG1Xt0r

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

A YouTube video showing a Codex goal experiment that I'm running to perform AI Interactive reviews on stories and PR requests. It captures videos of defects and raises the defects into Github. It also writes summary reports and logs of the interactions.

https://t.co/2Y84eDAtCn

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

This newsletter covers:

Which static analysis tools to use?
How to find bugs with AI
Is Coding Solved?
how do you use loops?
Securing Package Management
Testing Podcast Episodes Released

https://t.co/p9cDZLXLg9

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Latest Software Testing Roundup newsletter covers:

WebAssembly everywhere
Add more unique guardrails
Graph databases for predictive modelling
Web Standards for the win
Software Testing Podcasts

https://t.co/sdpAmWISRG

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

Newsletter with a free musical recommendation inside, + educational content collated for edification purposes.

Product Requires Humans
AI Slop PRs
AI Papers on Testing and other stuff
AI In your Browser - Risk City
Practicing Playwright Tips
Podcasts

https://t.co/zlFTwDXF23

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

New newsletter:
https://t.co/I3AWG4FtTV

Using AI Augmented Coding to Create Automated Coverage
Modern WebSite Specification
The Open Source Testing Framework that Hates AI
AI Workflows and Goals combined with StoryBook
Software Testing Podcast Episodes

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

This turned into a Cybernetics oriented newsletter edition with many older references. So inside find relevant lessons and cautionary tales from the 00's, 50's, 60's and 80's

https://t.co/zlWLCByGZZ

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

I spent a lot of the week reviewing and hardening code. Based on this week's newsletter:

- Tanstack Supply Chain Attack and What To Do About It
- Event Sourcing
- Tools to Help Develop and Test AI
- Software Testing Podcast Episodes Released

https://t.co/sHVmfqgnPo

[Alan Richardson @eviltester]

I built BoomStash using Vercel and SupaBase, and launched it on Product Hunt this morning. https://t.co/LJ1DWnL2ad

Products launched today are entered into a competition and potentially gain a little more visibility.