In October I spent a week at SF Tech Week. Breakfast with 66 CTOs at Zendesk. A panel on reliability and security in AI native products, hosted by the PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. A generative UI night at WorkOS. And a lot of hallway conversations with people who ship code written by AI every day. I asked almost everyone the same question: how do you test code that nobody wrote by hand?
Most of New Orleans sits below sea level. On one side, levees hold back the Mississippi. On the other, every heavy rain has to be pumped out. People think of that as concrete and steel. More and more of it is software: a sensor reports a level, a system decides, and a pump starts or doesn’t. That was on my mind walking into WEFTEC 2026. I’ve spent 16 years in software quality, and a growing share of our work is in water and environmental …
By Milić Bogićević, Senior QA Automation Specialist, Tech Tailors QA Next month I’m heading to a conference where none of the software on display manages a shopping cart or a login page. It manages what happens to water before it reaches a tap, or what gets reported to a regulator after it doesn’t. Water utility platforms, environmental monitoring systems, industrial compliance software. That’s a different category of software. Most …
We’ve already discussed QA outsourcing on two occasions. Check out our previous articles HERE and HERE. As quality assurance is not a side task, but an integral element that ties directly to a myriad of things, including safety, compliance, and customer trust, there are many different angles to be covered, which is exactly what this article does. For smaller companies, QA is as important as for large companies – but if large organizations suffer …
The question of “why apps fail” is an immensurably complex one, and there are probably as many answers out there as there are failed apps. However, if you look closely enough, stories of failing apps often hit the same beats and points as each other. While no “failure” can honestly be attributed to a single issue or mistake, many keep stumbling at the same old hurdles that they have been for years. Those same hurdles can be much easier to spot and …
According to GitLab’s 2024 DevSecOps Survey, 38% of startup downtime incidents could have been more easily prevented by automated tests. The same survey also lists increased automation as the top priority for increasing developer satisfaction and among the most important investment factors for new IT organisations. The conclusions are clear: software QA automation is no longer just a nice way to increase efficiency – for startups, it’s practically a …
A critical bug, no matter how small or insignificant, may cost you your business. Those that are lucky not to lose customers will undoubtedly lose money. In fact, according to research done by IBM’s Systems Sciences Institute, post-release bug fixing may cost up to 100x more than if you caught it during development and testing. It’s clear that QA matters, especially for startups. Young companies cannot afford to lose users and tarnish their reputation …
