https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/ Long-form writing on the craft of software testing. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/wcag-2-2-level-a-checklist/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/wcag-2-2-level-a-checklist/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WCAG 2.2 has 31 Level A success criteria — the accessibility floor. Every one of them, what a failure looks like, and how a tester actually checks it without buying a tool. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/what-axe-core-actually-catches/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/what-axe-core-actually-catches/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 At default settings, axe-core's rules touch 15 of the 31 WCAG 2.2 Level A criteria. Which ones it checks, which it can't, and where your manual pass has to start. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/can-ai-fix-flaky-tests/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/can-ai-fix-flaky-tests/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI can now diagnose a flaky test and open a pull request to fix it, but a repair that changes what the test checks and one that just silences it produce the identical green tick — so every automated fix is a candidate you review, never a result you trust. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/is-manual-qa-dead/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/is-manual-qa-dead/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The claim that manual QA is dead is clickbait — what's dying is manual test execution, while judgment, exploration, and test strategy become more valuable, so the move is up the stack, not a career restart. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/is-qa-dying-ai/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/is-qa-dying-ai/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The threat to QA in 2026 isn't a robot taking your job — it's three pressures at once (AI mandates, tighter budgets, and a flood of AI-generated code) that make human judgment more valuable, not less. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/reviewing-ai-generated-tests/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/reviewing-ai-generated-tests/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 AI writes more tests with more assertions, but assertion count isn't the same as bug-catching — the only test worth keeping is one that can fail, so reviewing AI-generated tests means confirming they'd actually notice a broken behaviour. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/why-ai-testing-pilots-dont-scale/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/why-ai-testing-pilots-dont-scale/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Nearly nine in ten QA teams are experimenting with generative AI but only about one in seven have scaled it, because the hard part was never the model — it's the ownership, data access, and trust required to run it in production. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/why-tests-are-flaky/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/why-tests-are-flaky/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A flaky test isn't random — it's a deterministic bug whose trigger doesn't fire on every run, and the trigger is usually a timing or waiting problem rather than bad luck or a bad selector. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/the-80-percent-coverage-trap/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/the-80-percent-coverage-trap/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Code coverage measures which lines your tests execute, not whether those tests would catch a bug. Chasing a coverage percentage produces tests that run everything and verify nothing — here's what to measure instead. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/when-your-team-doesnt-respect-qa/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/when-your-team-doesnt-respect-qa/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 If your team treats testing as a formality, the fix isn't testing harder — it's making the value of the bugs you catch legible in the language the business already cares about: risk, cost, and time. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/what-shift-left-actually-means/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/what-shift-left-actually-means/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Shift-left testing means finding defects earlier by involving testers in requirements and design, not moving all the testing work onto one person. Here's the difference — and how to tell which one your team is doing. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/the-ai-broke-your-software/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/the-ai-broke-your-software/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The AI breaking your software and the AI testing it are the same story. Why verification — and a real tester in the loop — is where the value now lives. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/how-to-use-ai-in-testing-safely/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/how-to-use-ai-in-testing-safely/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Where AI genuinely helps in testing, and the guardrail for each — because the same tool that speeds you up will hand you confident, wrong, green results. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/sw-tester-job-market-review/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/sw-tester-job-market-review/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 What tester forum threads reveal that analyst reports never will — and how to read them for observations, not conclusions, when deciding your QA career. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/will-ai-replace-qa-testers/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/will-ai-replace-qa-testers/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 No — AI changes the tester's job, it doesn't remove it. What AI can genuinely do in testing, what still needs a human, and where the line falls. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/bug-reports-developers-act-on/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/bug-reports-developers-act-on/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A bug report is a persuasion problem, not a form. The checklist that gets bugs fixed — and the one thing that matters more than all of it: reproducibility. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/manual-vs-automated-accessibility-testing/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/manual-vs-automated-accessibility-testing/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Automated accessibility tools catch the mechanical failures and miss the judgment calls. What each one really finds, and why the answer is "both, in the right order." https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/test-plan-vs-test-strategy/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/test-plan-vs-test-strategy/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A test strategy is the how across the org; a test plan is the what for one project. The real difference, in a table — and when a small team actually needs each. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/it-was-in-the-manual/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/it-was-in-the-manual/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A radiation-therapy system's documented limitation still killed eight people. On the distance between "documented" and "safe", and testing for the confident wrong answer. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/how-to-start-accessibility-testing/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/how-to-start-accessibility-testing/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Accessibility testing starts with your keyboard, not a scanner. The first real checks any tester can run against WCAG 2.2 — and where the tools quietly stop helping. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/the-leap-second/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/the-leap-second/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How a one-second clock correction took down Reddit, Cloudflare and more — twice — and what leap-second bugs teach about the assumptions software never tests. https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/pseudolocalization/ https://pearlyquality.hu/articles/pseudolocalization/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Pseudolocalization — a fifteen-minute stress test that breaks your international UI before a single string is translated, catching hardcoded strings, overflow and encoding bugs early.