Publications

Ideas should be built to survive scrutiny.

Books, published articles, essays, and experiments exploring how software quality evolves from execution into intelligence, evidence, trust, and governed autonomy.

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The same body of thinking now lives across books, long-form essays, public publications, experiments, and video.

The QE Alchemist Series

Three books. Three vantage points on the AI-quality transition.

Practitioner, professional, and leader—each book explores a different part of the shift from scripted quality to intelligent, agentic, evidence-driven quality systems.

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Kill the Script. Trust the Agent. A Practitioner's Manifesto for Software Quality in the Age of AI Amazon ↗
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Your Job Is Already Automated. You Aren't. A Career Guide for Software Quality Professionals in the Age of AI Amazon ↗
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You Bought the Agents. Now Build the Function. A Leader's Playbook for the Agentic Quality Organization Amazon ↗

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YouTube

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Video essays and visual explanations of Quality Intelligence, Agentic QE, AI Assurance, and the future of software quality.

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Published externally

Ideas carried into the wider quality conversation.

Selected public writing beyond QEAlchemist.com.

2026

Quality Intelligence · Agentic QE

From Dumb Agents to Quality Intelligence: The Missing Layer in AI-Driven Testing

Why context—not the number of agents—is the missing layer in enterprise AI-driven testing.

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2026

AI Assurance

Who Tests the AI? Engineering Trust in the Age of Intelligent Systems

A structured perspective on reliability, governance, and measurable trust in intelligent systems.

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2026

Quality Engineering

Reflections from Nearly Two Decades in Quality Engineering and Signals Shaping 2026

A practitioner reflection on the transition from execution-centric QE toward quality as trust infrastructure.

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2025

AI in QE

AI-Powered Insights: Transforming Code Quality and Testing Precision

Connecting code intelligence and test intelligence to improve quality decision-making.

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QE Alchemist essays

A library organized by idea—not by publishing date.

Start with the question you are trying to answer.

Quality Intelligence

Evidence → Risk → Confidence

From QE to QIWhy quality needs an intelligence layer Quality Intelligence Is Not AI-Powered TestingWhere intelligent testing ends and QI begins Release ConfidenceThe metric QE forgot to build The Quality GraphWhy intelligence needs connected evidence Provenance Is the New Test EvidenceWhy lineage becomes part of the proof

Agentic & Autonomous Quality

Reasoning → Authority → Action

Agentic AI for QEFrom assistance to coordinated assurance Stop Building Agents. Start Designing Decisions.A decision-first architecture for Agentic QE Autonomous Quality Needs a ConstitutionRules for evidence, authority, and human control

AI Assurance & Domain Intelligence

Grounding → Evaluation → Trust

Who Tests the AI?The assurance stack for intelligent systems The Confidence GapWhy AI needs continuous assurance after release Domain-Driven Testing Powered by Dynamic RAGA living context layer for quality reasoning

QI in Practice

Operating Model → Metrics → Maturity

From Test Factory to Decision SystemThe enterprise QI operating model The QI Maturity ModelFive levels from visibility to governed autonomy Stop Measuring Testing. Start Measuring Quality Decisions.Metrics for a decision-oriented quality function Human + Agent Quality IntelligenceWhere agent autonomy ends and human authority begins

QI Architecture at Scale

Signals → Evidence → Control → Decisions

The Quality Intelligence Reference ArchitectureFive planes from engineering signals to governed decisions Quality Data ContractsHow enterprise evidence becomes machine-understandable The QI Control PlaneGovern agents, confidence, and autonomous action From Quality Platform to Quality Decision FabricBring intelligence into engineering workflows

The Lab

Finished thinking is only half the story.

The Lab keeps the hypotheses, experiments, failure modes, and unanswered questions visible.

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