The Quality Trail: July 2025 QA News
From the Desk of the Editor
Hello, and welcome to the mid-summer edition of The Quality Trail. As always, we’re summarizing the most impactful things that have happened in the world of software quality over the past month.
If you come across an article or event that we missed, or just want to talk shop with likeminded people, drop us a line any time. It’s always a pleasure chatting with our readers.
– The QualityLogic Editorial Team
What’s Inside
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Conferences & Events
The summer months are usually fairly light on events. That said, we have a few coming up:
- TribeQonf: Over 600 attendees going with a focus on bringing together India’s best testing minds. Hosted in Bengaluru from 7/11 to 7/12.
- Testing Talks: Hosted in Sydney, Australia on 7/31, with a great lineup of speakers for the day, including leaders from Planit, Applitools, Canva, Deloitte, and more.
- Sparks: Hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 7/31 by Synapse QA, including keynotes from James Bach, Leah Stockley, Michelle Duke, and Nur Azyyati Ahmad.
AI in QA
Since AI (predominantly GenAI) ends up taking up such a significant chunk of our newsletters these days, we’ve opted to give it its very own section.
If you’re a quality or software engineer and your organization has adopted GenAI-based coding solutions like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Windsurf, you’ve undoubtedly seen pull requests that have been either partially or entirely written by AI. As QA professionals, it probably starts setting off alarm bells when you do.
Yuliia Baranetska wrote a post on Identifying When a Pull Request has been Generated with ChatGPT, including some of the signs to look for and how to apply increased scrutiny when the hunch is there.
Other articles in the same vein include:
- Testing AI-Coded Applications: Practical Tips for Software Testers by Rafaela Azevedo.
- When Not to Use AI by Mark Winteringham.
- Beyond the Hype: AI in Software Testing by QualityLogic’s CTO, Jim Zuber.
Speaking of AI-generated code, some intriguing statistics have surfaced:
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said up to 30% of the company’s code is now AI-generated – per TechCrunch
- Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg said that “half of its development work could soon be done by AI.” – per Mashable
- During Google’s third quarter earnings call last year, CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that 25% of internal code was AI-generated – per Forbes. All signs point to that figuring having increased significantly in 2025.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that AI will write 90% of code in 3-6 months, and nearly every line of code within the next year – per Business Insider
Even assuming some of these claims were grounded in more hype than reality, a key differentiator in today’s competitive environment is being able to write and ship code as quickly as possible, and companies can’t afford to fall behind.
It begs the question, what will be the Value of QA Roles After AI?
This was asked on the QualityAssurance subreddit, and it’s a fairly enlightening discussion. Here are a few more pieces that touch on or intersect with this idea:
- How Should Junior Engineers Level Up in the Age of AI? I Polled CTOs to Find Out by Miriam Partington.
- Will Software Testers be Replaced by AI Tools in Future? Article from Software Testing Magazine.
- The AI 4-Shot Testing Flow. The Old Ways of QA are Failing Fast. Article by Jason Arbon.
What We’ve Been Reading
- QA Decisions, When to Automate Tests, and When to Walk Away: A Practical Guide for Effective Test Automation by Marina Jordao: Should I automate this? How many times have you asked that question? This is a solid take on the age-old question.
- Establishing Test Automation in the SDLC: A Guide for Not-Quite-Beginners. Paul Morris, QualityLogic’s director of engineering, shared a “cookbook” to creating test automation inside an SDLC from scratch, what it takes, and how to get to a place where we have something effective.
- What Your Broken Test Suite is Really Telling You by Alessandra Moreira.
- Tech Layoffs: US Companies with Job Cuts in 2024 and 2025 by Crunchbase News.
- How to Get Unstuck: A Guide for Testers or Anyone Else Who Feels Stumped by Ady Stokes.
- AI in Software Testing Starter Pack by Keith Klain: A list of books to read if you’re hoping to up your game when it comes to the intersection of software testing and AI.
- Write Tests That Tells the Story by Rahul R.
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