A mother to two adult children and step mother to three, Kate has over 27 years experience in the software testing industry. Having worked across multiple company sectors, she has ridden the software testing rollercoaster and seen the good, the bad and the even worse. As test engineering tool trends and test practice op models change more often than our interest rates, Kate remains firm in the belief that good testing will always be required in some shape or form and require a level of human supervision. Her recent voyage of discovery with implementing agentic testing at Endeavour has given her a glimpse in to the future of testing practices - and its not all doom and gloom