RSRahul Srivastavainnohappypath.com·May 11 · 9 min readWhen AI Runs the Tests, What Is the Quality Engineer For?The question that started this, and has been quietly bothering me for months, is simple. If AI is going to execute most of what quality engineering used to execute, and the engineer's job is going to 00
RSRahul Srivastavainnohappypath.com·May 8 · 8 min readThe Test Pyramid Doesn't Survive Contact with an LLMEvery QE engineer has the same picture in their head when they hear the word "testing." A pyramid. A wide base of unit tests, a thinner band of integration tests, a small layer of end-to-end checks at00
RSRahul Srivastavainnohappypath.com·Apr 11 · 8 min readThe Layer You Think You ClimbedHigher value work isn't a vibe. It has a shape. And if you want to know whether AI has actually moved you up or just made you faster at standing still, you have to be able to see the shape clearly en00
RSRahul Srivastavainnohappypath.com·Apr 2 · 12 min readShift Left and Continuous Testing: Stop Treating Quality as a PhaseIf it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward. — Jez Humble & Dave Farley, Continuous Delivery (2010) Shift left and continuous testing are two of the most misunderstood terms in sof00
RSRahul Srivastavainnohappypath.com·Mar 26 · 5 min readThe Traditional Quality Model Is Costing You More Than You ThinkEvery team I've worked with underestimates the cost of finding bugs late. Not by a little, by orders of magnitude. The math is brutal, the pattern is predictable, and yet organisations keep repeating 00
