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The Quality Forge

Where Quality is Forged, Not Just Checked

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# The Quality Forge

> Where Quality is Forged, Not Just Checked

The Quality Forge is the home of Agentic Quality Engineering content, created by Dragan Spiridonov. It bridges classical QE practices with agentic intelligence through the PACTS framework (Proactive, Autonomous, Collaborative, Targeted, Structured). Real implementation stories from production, no hype, no vendor speak.

## About

- Website: https://forge-quality.dev/
- Author: Dragan Spiridonov
- Contact: dragan@quantum-qe.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dragan-spiridonov
- Organization: Quantum Quality Engineering
- Community: Serbian Agentic Foundation, Agentics Foundation (https://www.agentics.org/)

## Core Philosophy

Quality is contextual - there are no universal best practices, only good practices in specific contexts. Quality is built in, not tested in. Agents augment, don't replace. Fast feedback loops are essential. Production is the ultimate test environment.

## PACTS Framework

The PACTS principles define Agentic Quality Engineering:
- **Proactive**: Test before bugs; design testability into the architecture
- **Autonomous**: Teams and agents own quality, deciding within boundaries (guardrails)
- **Collaborative**: Whole-team quality; humans and agents work together
- **Targeted**: Risk-focused testing; test what matters, skip what doesn't
- **Structured**: Governance, observability, and explainability of agent behavior. Inspired by DORA's research on AI-assisted delivery; especially important in regulated industries. We measure confidence, not trust. Ships with a playbook and a readiness-assessment guide.

PACT originated with Reuven Cohen (Agentics) and was adapted to QE by Dragan Spiridonov; PACTS adds Structured.

## Main Pages

- [Home](https://forge-quality.dev/): Landing page with overview of The Quality Forge, articles, experiments, and projects
- [About](https://forge-quality.dev/about.html): About Dragan Spiridonov and The Quality Forge philosophy
- [Articles](https://forge-quality.dev/articles/): Collection of all published articles on Agentic QE

## Articles (35 Total - Latest First)

### When the Pipeline Became the Bottleneck (NEW)
- URL: https://forge-quality.dev/articles/when-the-pipeline-became-the-bottleneck.html
- Published: September 30, 2026
- Two months of parallel agents, a delivery pipeline I had to simplify, a QE organism finding its way into daily work, and a live meetup that brought me back to the browser. Agents had overengineered the CI/CD at Cognitum, so part of the fix was subtraction: a more direct route from reviewed change to production, with production checks and revert retained, and more attention to monitoring, observability, and alert delivery. No measured deployment-speed improvement is claimed. A recorded rollback target did not prove the previous version could serve, and a configured alert channel did not prove delivery; both were exercised. The QE organism gained skills, on-call support, correctable triage, and a Co
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