Practices
Process and team habits.
Exploratory Testing Tours: Whittaker's Six Districts
James Whittaker's book groups exploratory testing tours into six districts. This post adds its own selection rule for tours that fit one charter's mission.
HTSM: Inside James Bach's Heuristic Test Strategy Model
HTSM is James Bach's four-branch model for test strategy, currently v6.3: test techniques, project elements, product factors, and quality criteria categories.
HICCUPPS-F: Nine Testing Oracles for Defending Your Bug Calls
HICCUPPS-F: nine testing oracles beyond "the spec says so" for recognizing and defending a bug call before it gets waved off as works as designed in triage.
Test Observability: Metrics Beyond Red and Green
Test observability goes beyond pass/fail results. Track flake rates, test duration trends, and retry patterns to identify CI bottlenecks and build trust.
Exploratory Testing Charter: Template and Examples
Write exploratory testing charters that scope a session: a copy-ready charter template, worked examples, time-boxing, and the PROOF debrief that closes it.
Chaos Engineering for Testers: Getting Started
Chaos engineering for QA engineers: define steady state, write a hypothesis, and run a fault-injection experiment with Playwright and Toxiproxy.
How to Organize Regression Testing for Web Apps
Build a regression suite that scales for web apps: scope by change impact, tier by speed, split fast PR runs from nightly soaks, quarantine flaky tests.
7 Skills Every QA Engineer Needs in 2026
The QA role is evolving fast. Here are 7 skills that separate competitive QA engineers from those getting left behind in 2026.
The ISTQB Glossary Belongs in Every QA Engineer's Toolkit
ISTQB certification is optional, but knowing standardized testing terminology helps QA teams communicate clearly. Here's why the glossary matters.
Manual and Automation QA Engineers: How to Work Together Effectively
How manual testers and automation engineers can collaborate effectively. Practical patterns for breaking down silos and building unified QA teams.