How to Find a Test Strategy That Works in Real QA Teams
Most test strategies I know have one thing in common: they live in a document nobody opens. 40 pages, perfectly structured, completely irrelevant to how the team actually makes testing decisions on a Tuesday afternoon.
And now we have AI. Tools that generate hundreds of test cases in seconds. Agents that scan your codebase and propose coverage gaps. Dashboards that claim to do risk analysis for you. Impressive. But here is the thing: AI can generate tests faster than any human. It cannot tell you why those tests matter.
That is still a thinking job. Your thinking job.
Key takeaways:
- AI amplifies your testing approach. It does not define it. Strategic clarity matters more in the AI age, not less.
- A test strategy is a decision framework, not a documentation exercise.
- Holistic means: purpose, risk, people and technology in one picture. Not in separate silos.
- The one-page strategy that gets used daily beats the 40-page PDF every time.
- You cannot outsource the "why are we testing this?" question to any tool.
About Richard Seidl:
Richard "Richie" Seidl is a Software Testing Expert, Agile Quality Coach, and Podcast Host. Over the past 25 years, he has encountered a vast array of software throughout his professional journey: from the good to the bad, the large to the small, the new to the old. He has experienced software so magnificent it could bring one to tears, and others that make one cringe.
Richie has helped teams and projects in various industries, such as administration, finance, automotive, and logistics, to improve their software quality, implement agile testing, and establish test automation.
Richie is the author of several books on software testing, host of two Software Testing podcasts, and an international keynote speaker.
In 2025, he was awarded the German Prize for Software Quality (Deutscher Preis fuer Software-Qualität).
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