Mean Green Testing Machine: Software Testing

What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚀

I was recently reminded of this wonderful poem by Ioan Solderea: What is Artificial Intelligence? 😃
Indre Stasiuniene shares a snappy summary of valuable skills for an AI testing team.
It's great to see Katja Meyer hosting a MoT Meetup to discuss the 30 Days of AI in Testing.
How does AI support visual testing? Several tools get a mention.
A reminder that we can't all be expected to learn about AI in our own time. "Considering a “Growth Mindset” all parties should receive proper AI training." - Claudia Mueller.
Lisa Crispin shares concerns about the carbon footprint of training LLMs.
Many folks take time to learn how to read code and explain what it means. Poojitha Manam puts ChatGPT to the test with some Bubble Sort Python Code. View more experiments of code explanation with AI tooling.
AI in QA: automation of the TestRail update process by Dmytro Stekanov.
Amruta Bhokare offers five AI-infused security testing tools. What tools could you add to the list?
Stuart Thomas writes about how to run the Llama 2 large language model locally through being inspired by the 30 Days of AI in Testing challenge. Talking of which, it's great to see all the shared gratitude amongst those who have participated. Congrats! 🏆
Here's a handy set of steps to check your teams' readiness to implement AI in Testing. Thanks to Manoj Kumar Barik.
Ash Winter provides another helpful update about his experiences exploring AI in Testing. Plus more great video updates from Rahul Parwal.

Melissa Fisher asks for advice about quality criteria. 🧾
"Sometimes you need a better story". Think Like A Tester And Modify The User Stories by Wayne Roseberry.
What word can follow these words? "Bug", "Product" and "Automation". In this case, it's "Metrics". Brienna Ransom discusses Quality Metrics.

"Asking developers to start exploratory testing can be hard; many testers haven’t had the opportunity to practise this type of testing, let alone developers." Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares: How To Involve Developers In Exploratory Testing.

Software Tester frustration with job ads: Where QA job ads go wrong.
Daniel Knott had a good chat with Leonardo Lanni. Learn how he moved into freelancing.