A series by Charles Sword
The Last Mile
Agents now write the code and the tests. This series is about what that means for mobile: how to design the last mile of testing, where the app meets a real device, and how to give coding agents defect reports they can act on.
Chapter 1, The End of QA, is open to read now. Chapters 2 through 5 are coming soon. Subscribe to get each full chapter as it publishes.
The series
Chapter 1Read nowThe End of QA
Agents are erasing the line between writing software and testing it. Whether that works depends on one thing: how much of what testing reports is true. On mobile, that answer has to come from a physical device.
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- Chapter 2Coming soon
The reference architecture
What the mobile testing stack looks like when agents own it, layer by layer, and what happens to the Appium and Maestro tier.
- Chapter 3Coming soon
The last mile, measured
People, device farms and robots compared on cost, speed, hardware coverage and false positives.
- Chapter 4Coming soon
Defect reports for machine readers
What a report has to contain when its first reader is a coding agent and not a person.
- Chapter 5Coming soon
The quality architect
The roles, team shape and metrics for governing quality against throughput in a software factory.