And automated testing is m' JAM!!😁
September 22, 2026 at 12:43 AM
And automated testing is m' JAM!!😁
Automated accessibility testing involves running a page through tools and software to detect errors. Manual testing involves humans testing pages. Automated testing can be faster, but automated tests can't catch every error. Thus, use both automated and manual testing.
March 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Automated accessibility testing involves running a page through tools and software to detect errors. Manual testing involves humans testing pages. Automated testing can be faster, but automated tests can't catch every error. Thus, use both automated and manual testing.
Automated testing as in the end user, a biological automaton if you will, tests our code
January 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Automated testing as in the end user, a biological automaton if you will, tests our code
18 years of Android, 13 years of Docker, and yet "run some kind of Dockerized headless Android thing for automated testing" is still completely beyond us huh
February 28, 2026 at 9:47 PM
18 years of Android, 13 years of Docker, and yet "run some kind of Dockerized headless Android thing for automated testing" is still completely beyond us huh
Automated accessibility testing involves running a page through tools and software to detect errors. Manual testing involves humans testing pages. Automated testing can be faster, but automated tests can't catch every error. Thus, use both automated and manual testing.
October 10, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Automated accessibility testing involves running a page through tools and software to detect errors. Manual testing involves humans testing pages. Automated testing can be faster, but automated tests can't catch every error. Thus, use both automated and manual testing.
Block laid off 40% of its workers and here's the best explanation I've yet seen
tl;dr -- With automated code gen and automated testing, coders are now for a) specifying to agents what to write b) testing code -- *writing* code is no longer the bottleneck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ae...
tl;dr -- With automated code gen and automated testing, coders are now for a) specifying to agents what to write b) testing code -- *writing* code is no longer the bottleneck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ae...
March 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Block laid off 40% of its workers and here's the best explanation I've yet seen
tl;dr -- With automated code gen and automated testing, coders are now for a) specifying to agents what to write b) testing code -- *writing* code is no longer the bottleneck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ae...
tl;dr -- With automated code gen and automated testing, coders are now for a) specifying to agents what to write b) testing code -- *writing* code is no longer the bottleneck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ae...
In his post, "Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility," Eric Eggert explains that at its core, accessibility is about how people interact with computers. Automated tools might help identify issues, but they aren't a replacement for human expertise.
yatil.net/blog/automat...
yatil.net/blog/automat...
Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert
Over the past few years, accessibility companies have started to develop tools that claim to find accessibility problems automatically. Often the idea is that “automated testing is not quite there yet...
yatil.net
March 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In his post, "Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility," Eric Eggert explains that at its core, accessibility is about how people interact with computers. Automated tools might help identify issues, but they aren't a replacement for human expertise.
yatil.net/blog/automat...
yatil.net/blog/automat...
Automated accessibility testing involves running a page through tools and software to detect errors. Manual testing involves humans testing pages. Automated testing can be faster, but automated tests can't catch every error. Thus, use both automated and manual testing.
October 12, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Automated accessibility testing involves running a page through tools and software to detect errors. Manual testing involves humans testing pages. Automated testing can be faster, but automated tests can't catch every error. Thus, use both automated and manual testing.
Disney's All-Star Sports first day of testing new AI-automated checkouts at the food court.
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Disney's All-Star Sports first day of testing new AI-automated checkouts at the food court.
They also told me I could not script automated testing. I taught myself Python in 15 hours and built a pytest framework behind their back, because we had no regression or smoke tests at the time.
September 21, 2026 at 11:41 PM
They also told me I could not script automated testing. I taught myself Python in 15 hours and built a pytest framework behind their back, because we had no regression or smoke tests at the time.
New chapter: Agentic manual testing - about how having agents "manually" try out code is a useful way to help them spot issues that might not have been caught by their automated tests simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
Agentic manual testing - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Agentic manual testing - Agentic Engineering Patterns
simonwillison.net
March 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
New chapter: Agentic manual testing - about how having agents "manually" try out code is a useful way to help them spot issues that might not have been caught by their automated tests simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
🟩 BBC News currently testing new presenterless, automated weather forecast format, for use on the BBC News Channel. 😀
July 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
🟩 BBC News currently testing new presenterless, automated weather forecast format, for use on the BBC News Channel. 😀
No automated testing platform will ever teach with one one millionth the efficacy of drawing something confusing on the board and then staring out at the class in rapturous joy
September 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
No automated testing platform will ever teach with one one millionth the efficacy of drawing something confusing on the board and then staring out at the class in rapturous joy
Testing out the limits of Edward Urena's Detached Facial Feature implementation.
It's honestly insane how intuitive and unrestrictive this approach feels.
I automated the system with #geometrynodes and am adding Grease Pencil support too to remove even more overhead
#b3d
It's honestly insane how intuitive and unrestrictive this approach feels.
I automated the system with #geometrynodes and am adding Grease Pencil support too to remove even more overhead
#b3d
May 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Testing out the limits of Edward Urena's Detached Facial Feature implementation.
It's honestly insane how intuitive and unrestrictive this approach feels.
I automated the system with #geometrynodes and am adding Grease Pencil support too to remove even more overhead
#b3d
It's honestly insane how intuitive and unrestrictive this approach feels.
I automated the system with #geometrynodes and am adding Grease Pencil support too to remove even more overhead
#b3d
* What sort of testing do you have in place?
* Is the testing automated?
* Did you write the tests or did the LLM?
* If it's the latter, how can you be sure that the tests are adequate if you don't read them?
* Is the system secure against exploits after every regeneration?
5/7
* Is the testing automated?
* Did you write the tests or did the LLM?
* If it's the latter, how can you be sure that the tests are adequate if you don't read them?
* Is the system secure against exploits after every regeneration?
5/7
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
* What sort of testing do you have in place?
* Is the testing automated?
* Did you write the tests or did the LLM?
* If it's the latter, how can you be sure that the tests are adequate if you don't read them?
* Is the system secure against exploits after every regeneration?
5/7
* Is the testing automated?
* Did you write the tests or did the LLM?
* If it's the latter, how can you be sure that the tests are adequate if you don't read them?
* Is the system secure against exploits after every regeneration?
5/7
❗️In 🇺🇦Ukraine, an automated artillery fire control system based on the «KRIP-A» system has been developed. It enables automatic aiming of the gun at the target and has already undergone testing, including on the «Bohdana» self-propelled howitzer.
April 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
❗️In 🇺🇦Ukraine, an automated artillery fire control system based on the «KRIP-A» system has been developed. It enables automatic aiming of the gun at the target and has already undergone testing, including on the «Bohdana» self-propelled howitzer.
OK, that is definitely a testing rig for their 2028 Cadillac IQ L3 system... didn't realize they did development in Oregon
news.gm.com/home.detail....
news.gm.com/home.detail....
GM begins supervised public-road testing of next-generation automated technology
This week, our next-generation automated tech, trained on millions of real-world miles and stress-tested millions of times in simulated scenarios, begins supervised public-road testing on limited acce...
news.gm.com
June 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
OK, that is definitely a testing rig for their 2028 Cadillac IQ L3 system... didn't realize they did development in Oregon
news.gm.com/home.detail....
news.gm.com/home.detail....
yeah but with agents you can say “use modern version control, automated testing, and automated builds” and now you have those things for like $20
September 21, 2026 at 1:21 PM
yeah but with agents you can say “use modern version control, automated testing, and automated builds” and now you have those things for like $20
Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
– The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer
www.sarasoueidan.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
March 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
If I had one single piece of advice for people writing software today, it's "address your underinvestment in automated testing, even if you think you have good automated testing"
It's old advice, but the leverage it gives you in 2026 is absurd.
It's old advice, but the leverage it gives you in 2026 is absurd.
May 14, 2026 at 4:21 PM
If I had one single piece of advice for people writing software today, it's "address your underinvestment in automated testing, even if you think you have good automated testing"
It's old advice, but the leverage it gives you in 2026 is absurd.
It's old advice, but the leverage it gives you in 2026 is absurd.
There's QA work that can be automated, and should be, but unit tests only ever find what they're looking for. Exploratory QA gets maligned as unskilled or wasteful but it's basically penetration testing, and requires immense creativity to do well.
While @amandafarough.ca and I were talking to some press folks at GDC, I told an old QA story that Austin picked up on and decided to write about. Behold, a record of my crimes: www.gamesradar.com/games/fallou...
A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning"
"I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of"
www.gamesradar.com
March 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
There's QA work that can be automated, and should be, but unit tests only ever find what they're looking for. Exploratory QA gets maligned as unskilled or wasteful but it's basically penetration testing, and requires immense creativity to do well.
Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
www.sarasoueidan.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...
www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing...