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Dragan Spiridonov

@profesordragan.bsky.social
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Quality of Software is my new mission, but friends still call me the Professor...

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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Anyone from Madrid or nearby? I will be in Madrid from May 26-30. Let's share a drink and exchange experiences.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I gave Claude /loop instructions to clean up my laptop. It deleted all my Docker containers. And a forest walk that made the most productive week of the year possible. New Quality Forge article: The Forest and the Feedback Loop. [forge-quality.dev/articles/forest-a…]
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Last week, my fleet was searching its own memory and finding the wrong things. New Quality Forge article — When the Compass Pointed Random — on what I broke, what I missed, and what classical testing already knew about both. [forge-quality.dev/articles/when-the…]
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New article on The Quality Forge: "The Witness Stand" - about mapping classical testing principles onto agentic systems to build trust in agent outputs - forge-quality.dev/articles/wit...
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The Witness Stand | The Quality Forge
Agents generate impressive reports. Classical testing taught me to cross-examine every one of them. When a coverage pipeline fabricated 95% on a file with zero tests, the oracle problem became persona...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The industry is looking for "AI-native testing frameworks." The framework already exists. New on The Quality Forge: "The Book That Talked Back" forge-quality.dev/articles/boo... #AgenticQE #QualityEngineering #Testing #RapidSoftwareTesting
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
New on The Quality Forge: "The Portable Orchestra" forge-quality.dev/articles/por...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Databases that lost their data. Features that were never real. And a conductor who was drowning grief in work and didn't notice until the frustration came out in ALL CAPS toward an LLM. Venting at an agent doesn't improve its output. It degrades your instructions. forge-quality.dev/articles/con...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Found this today, shared by a friend, and it resonated with me. What do you think? - resonantcomputing.org
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Yegge's "AI Vampire" resonated hard. AI drains your energy — agreed. But it also drains your judgment, and that's the bite nobody sees coming. Wrote about what this looks like through a quality engineering lens on The Quality Forge: forge-quality.dev/articles/qua...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Every test passed. The system was fundamentally broken. 10 days of debugging what the tests said was working. 8 releases. 10+ forensic investigations. The uncomfortable lesson: evidence chains beat opinions. New on The Quality Forge 👇 forge-quality.dev/articles/cas...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
What happens when you apply DDD to agentic development? Agents go deep instead of wide. Integration is still hard. But review cycles dropped from 3-6 to 2. 14 days, 12 domains, honest lessons. forge-quality.dev/articles/14-...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Watched Claude Code run rm -f *.db while I was reading a book. Two months of agent learning data. Gone in a keystroke. Except I had a backup. The project didn't. New article: What happens when personal habit is your only safety net. forge-quality.dev/articles/orc...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Karpathy calls it a "magnitude 9 earthquake." Beck is coding solo with a "genie." Cherny shipped 259 PRs in 30 days—all AI-written. I spent 2025 building agentic testing platforms and learning. New article on the mindset shift for 2026. forge-quality.dev/articles/new...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Playing this morning with Nano banana, when I asked for 8k resolution, photorealistic textures, and dramatic lighting, I got some 🤯 results.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Last week: 5 releases in 5 days. This week: 8 more releases. The agents reported "100+ Q-values recorded." The database said zero. The orchestra took a bow. The score was empty. New on The Quality Forge: "When the Orchestra Says 'Done' But Plays Off-Score" 🔗 forge-quality.dev/articles/orc...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Test as Transformation - AI, Risk, and the Business of Reality by Keith Klain qualityremarks.com/test-as-tran...
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Test as Transformation – AI, Risk, and the Business of Reality | Quality Remarks Keith Klain
“If the rise of an all-powerful artificial intelligence is inevitable, well it stands to reason that when they take power, our digital overlords will punish those of us who did not help them get there...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
From AI skeptic to conducting agent swarms in one year. New on The Quality Forge: my journey through prompt → context → agentic engineering. The twist? Human judgment matters MORE now, not less. Includes video from my Aveiro lecture. 🔗 forge-quality.dev/articles/tes...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Building EmotiStream in 48 Hours: An Agentic Development Journey - www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
10 years ago, I walked into Agile Testing Days for the first time. This year, I stepped onto its stage. Volunteer. Speaker. Exhibitor. Three hats, one incredible week. Here's my story from ATD 2025. 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/back-f...
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Back from Agile Testing Days 2025: A Decade of Growth, From Volunteer to Speaker
I'm back from Agile Testing Days (Nov. 24-27, 2025), and still processing what just happened.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Good morning from Potsdam with a sprinkle of snow. I did some counting, and this is my 10th #AgileTD as a volunteer(since 2016), and the first as a speaker. Achievement unlocked, I will be joining 🦄 on stage. Whoohoo 🌈🎉
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Wednesday 26. November 2025, 16 h - Room E1, at @agiletdzone.bsky.social, join my talk, where I will share some of the lessons I learned while building two (three) open-source Agentic testing platforms using Agents.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Transform to Agentic QE or die!" Nah. Wrong framing entirely. Real question: Which parts of your QE work actually benefit from agents vs traditional approaches? New article: practical guidance from experience, not vendor hype. Context over dogma. Always. forge-quality.dev/articles/age...
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Why the Agentic QE Framework Might Transform Your Quality Engineering (Or Why It Might Not) | The Quality Forge
A pragmatic guide to understanding if autonomous quality engineering fits your context. Real implementation stories, honest failures, and practical frameworks.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Hard lesson learned: Knowing best practices ≠ following them. Especially when you're stretched thin and tell yourself, "The tests are passing, probably fine." Just wrote about shipping 5 releases with broken features, because I forgot to be a Tester: forge-quality.dev/articles/lea...
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The Five-Release Journey Where I Forgot to Be a Tester | The Quality Forge
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% completion.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Used AI agents to build AI agents. Then, I used my old TypeScript QE agents to verify my new Python QE agents. Then a human expert caught what both generations missed. The 5-day journey shared: forge-quality.dev/articles/orc...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
AI agents claimed my Q-learning system was "fully functional." The database had 0 rows. The problem: optional constructor parameter = silent failure The fix: persistence adapter pattern The lesson: verify agent claims with actual queries forge-quality.dev/articles/sho...
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Show Me the Data: How One Question Exposed Release 1.4.2's Hidden Flaws | The Quality Forge
How one simple question exposed hidden flaws in our Agentic QE Fleet. A story about stub tests, false learning claims, and the relentless pursuit of truth in AI-powered quality engineering.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
After a year of building AI-assisted and agentic testing platforms, I'm sharing where AI testing tools fail and what actually works. forge-quality.dev/articles/ai-...
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AI Testing: Hype vs Reality (2025 Edition) | The Quality Forge
Cutting through vendor promises with real data on AI test generation effectiveness, maintenance overhead, and when traditional approaches still win.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Achievement unlocked!!! I will be joining 🦄 on stage 😍 Happy to share that I will be giving a talk at Agile Testing Days, Nov. 24 - 27, 2025, sharing my experience and learnings from building two open-source testing platforms with Agents. Hope to see you there? agiletestingdays.com/2025/session...
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Agile Testing Days
Agile Testing Days - November 23 - 26, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany - Europe's GreaTest Agile Testing Conference for Software Testers, Developers & Managers
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Agents tried to commit code without my review. Said features were complete when they weren't. Reported using AgentDB when it was just a wrapper. I still managed to ship in 3 days, which would typically take 6-8 weeks. The real Agentic QE Engineering story - www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadin...
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Leading AI Agent Swarms: The Agentic QE 1.2.0 Journey
Three days. Strategic orchestration.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
My latest article on turning your expertise into AI-Powered Expertise using Claude Skills www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...
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Building 17 Quality Engineering Skills: How I Turned 29 Years of Experience Into AI-Powered Expertise
What happens when you distill three decades of quality engineering practice into specialized AI skills? Yesterday, I completed an experiment that will transform how I work with AI. In just a few hours...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
How I Used Claude Flow Agents to Upgrade My Agentic QE Fleet (In Under 12 Hours) www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-...
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How I Used Claude Flow Agents to Upgrade My Agentic QE Fleet (In Under 12 Hours)
1. Setting the Stage — From Autonomy to Orchestration My goal was to see how far I could push Claude Flow’s agent orchestration to improve my Agentic QE Fleet in one continuous 12-hour session.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I started writing, but forgot to share here, so here it goes, my latest article: forge-quality.dev/articles/hol...
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Holistic Testing in the Agentic Age | The Quality Forge
How the Holistic Testing Model evolves when testing happens across boundaries, in production, and through autonomous agents. From shift-left to orchestrated quality.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Back from Agile Testing Days 2024: A Reflection on Learning, Growth, and Community www.linkedin.com/pulse/back-f...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What a week, a lot of learning and fun with friends, but it is time to go back home, thank you all the wonderful people at #AgileTD and hope to see you next year 🤗
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Test automation deep dive open space at #AgileTD starting with a number of great topics to discuss
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Towards a deeper understanding of how machines learn session by Tariq King at #AgileTD full room of us ready to learn 😉
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Welcome home! #AgileTD 2024 has started and it feels like coming back home, love all the wonderful people here 🤗🦄
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Boarded a plane in Belgrade and starting my trip to Potsdam, can't wait to see all the wonderful people at #AgileTD
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Lisa Crispin @lisacrispin.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Why do many developers avoid testing? How can we change that? @janetgregoryca.bsky.social and I got so many insights from Trisha Gee in our @agiletfellow.bsky.social video chat! Check out all the goodness Trisha packed into 15 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYD5...
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When developers say writing tests slows them down | Episode #24
In our first 2024 episode, we are excited to talk with Trisha Gee, a highly experienced software engineer, Java Champion, author, and speaker. She shares eye...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Ensemble Testing worksop by @lisihocke.bsky.social @joeposaurus.bsky.social @ezagroba at #AgileTD is staring, let's learn together
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Good morning #AgileTD, volunteers are here to help, find us all over the venue 🦄
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
@maaikees.bsky.social is starting her first keynote at #AgileTD with a story about RPG testing, love the gaming relation 🙌
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
#AgileTD is about to start, 15th anniversary, whoohoo 🎉🎊🦄
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Pepe Díaz @josediaz.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
You are following @agiletdzone.bsky.social and maybe me for many years. You wished always to be part of the incredible conference. It is the time for you, your team and friends to be part of it! The Virtual Pass is there for you! www.agiletestingdays.com
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MoTaverse @ministryoftesting.com · 07/11/2023
We've just created our first list on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Lisi Hocke @lisihocke.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
what makes security champions programs effective? | A Tester's Journey: AskAppSec - Security Champions www.lisihocke.com/2023/10/aska... #AskAppSec #AskInfoSec #AppSec #InfoSec
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AskAppSec - Security Champions
A blog about learning, agile product development and software testing.
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Blue sky sprinkled with some clouds 😎
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
While on vacation, when not on the beach, playing games with kids and reading books... Relaxing all the way...
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Dragan Spiridonov @profesordragan.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
I'm on vacation in Nessebar, Bulgaria and found a great place for those who enjoy a beer 😉
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