Quality Engineering
AI Agents and the Microservices Testing Gap
How explicit service contracts and integration checks can help teams evaluate agent-generated changes.
Software Engineering
Systematic methods, architectural decisions, and engineering practices that distinguish sustainable software from ad-hoc coding
Quality Engineering
The Hallucination Debt in AI-Generated Tests
AI-generated tests can reference nonexistent packages or stale APIs. What the evidence says, and does not say, about the causes....
Quality Engineering
Migration Fever: The Tests You Skip Are the Delays You Buy
How to assess customer risk when migration deadlines put pressure on testing.
Quality Engineering
The Hidden Cost of Flaky Tests
Flaky tests consume engineering time and make failures harder to trust. What published case studies can and cannot tell us....
Software Engineering
The Golden Path: Platform Engineering's Quiet Revolution
How internal developer portals can support onboarding and reduce friction, and what teams should measure.
Software Engineering
Platform engineering's adoption trap
Platform engineering can struggle to deliver value when tooling, team needs and expectations are misaligned.
Software Engineering
The coder's crutch: AI-assisted development's hidden costs
AI-assisted development changes the work of coding, reviewing and maintaining software.
Software Engineering
Code Generators: The Brilliant Interns Nobody Supervises
AI coding tools raise questions about productivity and maintainability. A closer look at a METR trial and the limits of...
Software Engineering
Why Digital Transformations Miss Their Goals
How governance, integration, skills and customer outcomes influence digital transformation.