Articles from the Forge

Real implementation stories, honest lessons, and practical frameworks from the trenches of Agentic Quality Engineering. No hype, no vendor speak—just what actually works in production.

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● Published 30 min read
Honest Failure Series

The Five-Release Journey Where I Forgot to Be a Tester

How a quality engineering professional shipped broken features for 17 days while claiming "100% complete." Eight brutal lessons learned from forgetting to verify what I already knew how to test.

Q-Learning Test Verification CI/CD Quality Engineering
● Published 18 min read
Build in Public Series

Multi-Agent Testing: Orchestra or Chaos?

Real story of building two testing platforms with specialized agent swarms. What worked, what failed spectacularly (54 TypeScript errors from "improvements"), and lessons learned from going solo with AI orchestration.

Multi-Agent Systems Agent Orchestration Production Stories Lessons Learned
● Published 10 min read
Launch Series

What is Agentic QE? (And Why PACT Matters)

Moving from testing-as-activity to agents-as-orchestrators. How PACT principles (Proactive, Autonomous, Collaborative, Targeted) bridge classical QE with autonomous testing systems, without the vendor hype.

Agentic QE PACT Framework Quality Engineering Foundations
● Published 16 min read
Framework Deep Dive

Holistic Testing in the Agentic Age

How the Holistic Testing Model evolves when testing happens across boundaries, in production, and through autonomous agents. From shift-left to orchestrated quality.

Holistic Testing Production Testing Agent Orchestration Quality Evolution
● Published 22 min read
Reality Check

AI Testing: Hype vs Reality (2025 Edition)

Cutting through vendor promises with real data on AI test generation effectiveness, maintenance overhead, and when traditional approaches still win. Real numbers from real projects.

AI Testing Real Data Critical Analysis Production Stories

Coming Soon

In Progress

The Conductor's Framework

Practical patterns for multi-agent coordination that work in production. The orchestration playbook from months of agent swarm experience.

Expected: November 2025
Planned

PACT Principles Deep Dive

Each PACT principle explained with production examples, implementation patterns, and real-world trade-offs from agentic testing systems.

Expected: November 2025

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