# sqgne SQGNE is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization focused on understanding and applying software quality. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## T.J. Maher Elected to the Board of Directors of the Software Quality Group of New England DevFeed: [T.J. Maher Elected to the Board of Directors of the Software Quality Group of New England]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: T.J. Maher (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2026-06-17T23:26:28Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [T.J. Maher]() Topics: [sqgne](), [Testing](), [Software Engineering]() Tags: [community](), [development](), [qa](), [quality](), [sqgne](), [testing]() ### AI overview T.J. Maher announces election to the volunteer board of directors of the Software Quality Group of New England, an all-volunteer nonprofit community focused on software quality. The article also mentions Maher's monthly SDET Lean Coffee discussion group. ### Source excerpt I've been elected to be on the Board of Directors of the Software Quality Group of New England (sqgne.org) on the volunteer leadership committee! The Software Quality Group of New England (SQGNE) is an all-volunteer, nonprofit professional community in New England dedicated to software quality. Since its founding, SQGNE has brought together QA engineers, SDETs, and software quality professionals for monthly educational presentations, discussions, and networking -- covering everything from testing techniques and process improvement to the latest tools and industry trends. I also have founded and moderate an online monthly SDET Lean Coffee discussion group, bringing together software development engineers in test, quality engineers, and automation practitioners to exchange ideas, challenges, and emerging practices. After our hiatus during the summer, we will be meeting monthly up in Burlington, MA. Check us out! Happy Testing! -T.J. Maher Software Engineer in Test BlueSky | YouTube | LinkedIn | Articles ## SDET Lean Coffee #1: With AI, what is useful testing and what is workslop? SQGNE, June 2, 2026 DevFeed: [SDET Lean Coffee #1: With AI, what is useful testing and what is workslop? SQGNE, June 2, 2026]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: T.J. Maher (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2026-06-02T20:35:29Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [T.J. Maher]() Topics: [Testing](), [Agile](), [sqgne](), [Development]() Tags: [agents](), [agile](), [agile-testing](), [ai](), [sqgne](), [team](), [teams](), [testing](), [work]() ### AI overview A report on the first SDET Lean Coffee organized by the Software Quality Group of New England. Attendees discussed useful testing practices with AI, AI-generated workslop, AI workflows, the testing of AI agents, and the pressures faced by software testers. The article also explains the Lean Coffee meeting format and announces the next session. ### Source excerpt With AI, what is useful when it comes to testing and what is workslop? How do you create workflows in AI? With AI producing massive amounts of code, how can a tester keep up? These are some of the topics attendees decided to talk about in our first ever SDET Lean Coffee, as part of the Software Quality Group of New England ( sqgne.org ). We exchanged war stories, horror stories, shared insights, and provided a bit of group therapy as we talked about the stress involved being the main support role of the software development team. A surprise guest was Lisa Crispin (LisaCrispin.com), author of "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams". Lisa has been working with DORA, Google Cloud's DevOps Research and Assessment division. Recently, Lisa gave a talk teaming up with the "Beyond Quality" podcast, sharing what she has been doing "AI, testing, and the DORA AI Capabilities Model" at Lisa's site at https://lisacrispin.com/2026/04/20/ai-testing-and-the-dora-ai-capabilities-model/ discussing: The Dora AI Capabilitues Model How we need to test AI agents since AI agents can degrade over time What is a "Lean Coffee"?"Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated". This format arose over fifteen years ago, when "Jim Benson and Jeremy Lightsmith wanted to start a group that would discuss Lean techniques in knowledge work - but didn't want to start a whole new cumbersome organization with steering committees, speakers, and such. They wanted a group that did not rely on anything other than people showing up and wanting to learn or create", according to LeanCoffee.org. When Is The Next SDET Lean Coffee? SDET Lean Coffees for the SQGNE will (usually) be held the first Tuesday of each month at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT. Interested in attending the next session Tuesday, July 7th? Register at the Soft