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Ideas, guidance and points of view from the Avocado team — practical thinking on observability, quality engineering, cyber security and AI.

Why defects keep coming back (and it’s not a skills problem)

Recurring defects aren’t a skills issue. Improve defect practices to shorten triage, prevent repeats, and protect release confidence.

Many organisations track testing activity but still struggle with release decisions. Learn how quality engineering metrics should reduce risk and ...

Test suites growing while coverage shrinks? Learn how risk-based design, traceability, & focused techniques cut bloat & boost releases.

Even with automation, AI and agile practices, quality can still break down. Discover why uneven quality creates risk & ways to boost maturity

Discover how misaligned process & strategy in Quality Engineering leads to uneven software quality, slower delivery, and operational risk.

Monitoring tells you something is wrong. Observability tells you why. Learn the difference, the benefits and how to build a mature observability ...

How attackers target identities now, what Australian obligations require, and six practical steps to strengthen identity and access management..

When you need a penetration test, what we test, how we report findings, and how to turn results into prioritised remediation.

AI is no longer a future concept in testing, it’s already reshaping how quality engineering teams approach everything from regression testing to ...