AKAlok Kumarincommunity.keploy.io·Aug 12 · 12 min readMaintenance Testing: Types, Challenges & Tools (2026)Last month, a two-line bug fix took down three unrelated features in a colleague's app. The fix itself was correct — it patched a null check on a checkout API. Nobody re-ran the tests for the inventor10
Ssophielaneintestingdesk.hashnode.dev·Jul 27 · 8 min readThe Regression Testing Tools Evaluation Criteria That Predict Long-Term ValueMost regression testing tools look good in the first month. The demo is smooth. The setup takes less time than expected. The first test suite runs cleanly and the results look exactly like what was pr00
SFSyed Fazle Rahmaninbug0.com·Jul 13 · 8 min readSmoke testing in 2026: what it is, examples, and when to automate ittldr: A smoke test is a fast, shallow check that a build's most important paths work at all. If the smoke test fails, the build is rejected on the spot, before anyone spends time on deeper testing. Th52PF
SMSushrut Mishrainbug0.com·Jun 24 · 11 min readAI code review isn't enough. You still need end-to-end teststldr: AI code review checks that the code looks right. It does not check that your product works. Those are different jobs, and one of them happens after the merge. In March 2026, after a string of o00
SMSushrut Mishrainbug0.com·Jun 17 · 20 min readWhat is QA automation in 2026? Testing what AI now writes and shipstldr: QA automation means using tools and scripts to run tests, verify expected behavior, and report failures without manual work. The definition has held since the Selenium era. What changed is the j145HZJD
Ssophielaneintestingdesk.hashnode.dev·Jun 15 · 12 min readAutomated Regression Testing Architecture: Designing Systems That Scale Without BreakingWhen I watch automated regression testing fail at scale, the problem is rarely the tools. It is usually the architecture. Teams start with a few tests. The tests work. Then they add more tests. And mo00
SFSyed Fazle Rahmaninbug0.com·Jun 9 · 7 min readVibe coding has a QA problem nobody priced intldr: Vibe coding didn't remove the work. It moved it downstream to the part nobody budgeted for: proving the code works. And the iterative loop that makes vibe coding feel fast is the same loop that 147WJDT
Ssophielaneintestingdesk.hashnode.dev·Jun 4 · 11 min readThe Regression Testing Mistake That Cost Us 2 Weeks of DebuggingIt was 3 AM on a Friday when I realized our regression testing strategy was actively helping us ship bugs to production. We had spent six months building comprehensive regression testing. Our regressi10
YBYahid Basha Tinyahid.hashnode.dev·May 11 · 14 min readI build AI agents professionally. I used Passmark on my personal tracker at 4 AM. It found 8 bugs — 5 invisible to any manual test.Who I am and why that matters here I'm a software engineer at Verizon working on AI agent systems — LLM orchestration, incident routing, multi-model evaluation pipelines. I've published IEEE research 31Y
LSLakshmi Srinivasaninlakshmis-test-lab.hashnode.dev·May 8 · 2 min readAutomating Complex Form Testing with AI – Smarter Validation and Faster RegressionForms are everywhere — login pages, checkout screens, registration flows. Testing them is one of the most repetitive and time-consuming tasks in QA. Each field needs validation, rules must be checked,00