Testing News in Haikus …
TestBash in six months
Testing community smiles
Time to start planning?
This is a ChatGPT-free zone. Get creative with your own 
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AI helps with tests,
Smooth and swift in many way,
Fixing their flaws takes time.
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The app a lake,
Silent surface, calm and clear,
But deep it’s boiling,
Errors lie beneath.
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Not news, but some observations on testing.
#1
All tests are scripted
Important bugs stay unfound
Your project is doomed
#2
You do not explore
But automate everything
Your quality sucks
#3
Stub everything out
So the tests run nice and fast
It all will be fine
#4
Boss wants “full” testing
Says you must stay late at work
Go get a new job
#5
ISTQB
A blight on our profession
Heed not what they say
#6
Works on my machine
So dev closes the ticket
It was ever thus
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We want XRay test reports
It does not do it like we want
We go back to Confluence
(FYI: We want XRay test reports for iterations, but that is something it cannot do so far)
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Just a reminder to everyone that haikus have a strict form comprising three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 and the last has 5. The lines do not need to rhyme.
It’s all good Steve, folks can play with the rules by exploring the Haiku boundaries.
Keep 'em coming folks. 
Hmm, the boundary conditions for a haiku are pretty unambiguous. Perhaps we should re-specify the requirements for this thread as a haiku:
Haikus must have the
Right number of syllables
Except when they don’t
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Now I’m aware of that I confused syllables with words.
I am unsure if
I would call a poem
next to Haiku one if it isn’t
Also I’m confused with counting syllables in English.
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Since I have nothing new as particular in Testing News to share so I tried to be a bit creative with my current status however, as of no,w I can’t get creative beyond 3 lines: 
This weekend, Nothing new to explore,
Hoping to join meetups more
Planning to speak to make people bore
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Testers exploring
Model Context Protocol
How will it help us?
A2A enters
Is it a friend or a foe?
Of the MCP
Titled: Quality Coaching (lights a candle like Mike Myers in ‘So I Married an Axe Murderer’ jazz club open mic night scene)
guidance clear… profound
skills honed, excellence unbound
growth in every round
(blows out candle)
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Oh no found too late to fix,
Code shipped fast, no time to test
Tester takes the Blame.
Its always the case
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I’m waiting for my
vacation to be soon
I need recreation
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I read a good one from @ujjwal.singh on the MoT Slack:
After facing few crashes on recent release of Selenium:
Silly you but still alive,
Writing about you day and night,
Make me feel wholesome live…
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They wanted to sell
our department and failed last year
I got ill for 6 weeks.
Trust is ripped into pieces
From 30 to 15 people in a year
Makes me think again to leave
I tried to leave
last year and failed
economy still sucks
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Some things look simple
Requirements clearly stating
Common fallacy
Syllables in English can be quite long but are mostly the same length in Japanese, so 5-7-5 can result in clunky Haiku in English.
Try micropoetry
Space for creativity
Still small enough for brevity
Economical like exploratory testing
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Something that came in my mind while being stuck in traffic…
Pollution is in the air,
Doing Real testing now is rare,
Hallucination with AI is fair…
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