Observatory Weekly: Quality gaps, Claude QA skills, and the testing mindset

The useful part

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How it works

• Testing Knowledge Isn't (Just) a Testing Skill — Jeff Nyman The first and second posts in this series were about one person occupying two roles on the same project, sometimes switching between them within a...
• That's interleaving, and it works because the switch is cheap: same person, same context, same code sitting right there to look at.
• How to Make Your SKILL.md Interactive — Filip Hric I've been recently playing with Matt Pocock's grill-me skill, which I found to be very useful.
• AI success depends on data foundations — James Heward The conversation around AI is often dominated by models, tooling and the latest advances in generative and agentic AI.
• Organisations are understandably keen to understand how these technologies could improve operations, unlock efficiency or create new opportunities.

What to take from it

AI agent that runs your manual test cases in a real browser — BroxHQ AI agent that runs your manual test cases in a real browser Quality Talks: Stu is joined by new co-host Chris Pratt as they talk about career change, finding the right role and what it really means to start something new. Most of it looks like two different people, on two different sides of a task, who never actually swap seats.

Example or evidence

• Quality gaps, Claude QA skills, the testing mindset, and more!
• Apparently We Need a Testing Mindset After All — Keith Klain For years, those of us who view testing as skilled knowledge work were told there's no such thing as a "testing mindset." We've also endured...
• The basic idea of grill-me is to help you come up with a plan by asking you a bunch of questions.
• The agent will do a round of questions and ask you about more and more details until it is able to create a comprehensive plan.

Details worth keeping

Ep 1 — Stu Day and Chris Pratt Quality Talks enters a new chapter! Most of the testing world doesn't look like that. I want to do it with something small enough to show in full.

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