Shattered Illusions by Chris Kenst
Shattering the illusions around how things work| Shattered Illusions by Chris Kenst
Shattering the illusions around how things work| Shattered Illusions by Chris Kenst
We often have a superficial understanding of complex systems, which creates the "illusion of understanding. Time to shatter the illusion.| Shattered Illusions by Chris Kenst
A farewell message to the greater AST community.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
In a push system, teams are given tasks to do. In a pull system, teams pull tasks from a backlog or central place. By moving towards a pull system our testers will have more ownership and responsibility over their work.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
It’s March and I haven’t published since November. I am just now writing a recap of last year so it’s fair to say I’m a bit behind on things, but I’m excited to share why! Year in Review time. You| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
Observability blurs the line between testing and monitoring. The concept TOAD can help us think through their relationship and extends it to DevOps.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
Part of our misbelief in things comes from the gap between our confidence and what we really know. Confronting that can prove exciting.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
When you get a job offer, it needs to makes sense for you. When it doesn't, you need to know what requests you can make to change things.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
My career has been defined by a lack of test managers. Only 25% of my jobs have had them. That's led to a few interesting challenges.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
Each month I artisanally handcraft a newsletter for TestingConferences.org. A month ago I decided to see what parts of that process I could automate using ChatGPT| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
Software testers are NOT the gatekeepers of quality. They don’t control or limit access to quality software or services.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
I'm analyzing the next two Software Test Engineer hiring rounds from 2021. This time I have a theory to test: testing education is a positive signal in my hiring process.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
'Treat your test code like production code' is a really common saying. Lets tackle one facet of that rule: unit testing your e2e tests| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
"Explainable AI" (xAi) or "explainability" is when you design and build systems that can explain their decisions. Turns out I do this right now.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
The Worlds I See is a very good story and now I have some thoughts to share.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
2024 was busy and 2025 has been unrelenting so far.| Shattered Illusion by Chris Kenst
