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Rosie Sherry
CEO & Founder at Ministry of Testing
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I've been working in the software testing and quality engineering space since the year 2000 whilst also combining it with my love for education and community building. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified
November 2025
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AI Quality Lean Coffee
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Communities of Practice, a live conversation
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Leading With Quality - Brighton
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Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says
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'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
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Lesson 7 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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On Herding Cats
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The Cautionary Tale of Gen AI
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Habit of AI in Quality Engineering
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Questions and more questions – how does your AI model work?
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1.4.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Designing for different browsers and devices
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How do we grow the next generation of Quality Engineers in the current market?
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How I automated the annoying part of my job with Goose and Playwright MCP
Amazing work
Thanks for hosting November 2025's LWQ Lean Coffee. What a brilliant way to bring awesome people together. Lots of excellent topics covered. 
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1.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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(Testing) Mind over (Developer) Matter(s)
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Engineering Decrypt the Narrative: Behind the Build
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What the STEC? How we built a certificate that is better than the industry standard
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You're absolutely right! How we now read the docs.
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1.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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🎉600+ Stars on Ministry of Testing!
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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs
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The Hidden History of Quality Engineering: From Taguchi to Modern Software
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Which Tests Should We Automate - Angie Jones
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Prompts Chat
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STEC Deep Dive: Fresh Eyes, New Insights
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Join in the code reviews and use AI with care!
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EU Privacy Under Fire from Big AI?
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The hidden cost of QUALITY DEBT: What Leadership Doesn’t See
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Researching Education
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AI, curiosity, and a little procrastination
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Know the Product, Own the Quality: Why Product Knowledge is a QA Superpower (and How to Do It)
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“It’s Just A Flaky Test”: The Most Expensive Lie in Engineering
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The Invisible Forces of Testing
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1.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk
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ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy
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These ducks are local celebrities and walk the red carpet daily
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AI in QA: how to use Generative AI in testing without creating technical debt
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Agent Design Is Still Hard
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My private information is worth $30
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WhatsApp security flaw lets experts scrape 3.5 billion user numbers - here's what we know, and how to stay safe
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Linus Torvalds gives approval to "vibe coding" - just don't use it on anything important
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Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach
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Human risk: don’t blame the victim, fix the system
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Testing is on sale now. Will quality follow?
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
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Quality takes time
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Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
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Engineering Management in the Age of Agents
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Why Learning is Hard
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The Systems Leader
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Driving Quality Through Metrics, Advocacy, and Continuous Improvement.
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How Community and Culture Are Shaping the Next Era of Quality Engineering.
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How Community and Culture Are Shaping the Next Era of Quality Engineering.
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TikTok rolls out new accessibility tools, including AI-generated ALT text
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Quality narratives are a better form of reporting
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That shiny new feature works, so what?
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Monzo Writing Principles
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Quality = Engineered + Experienced - explained with fountain pens.
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How to build a geolocation test plan with Testpad
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Automating PDF Testing: From Manual Checks to Comprehensive Validation
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The SmartBear Crew
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Browserstack in the MoTaverse
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A quality juggling act.
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We love ducks
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Wonderproxy word magnets
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Paul Reinheimer from Wonderproxy
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Happy action shot of Marine Meyer of Postman
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Marine Meyer from Postman at MoTaCon25
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Maestro representing
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Friends of the MoTaverse 🫶
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Wonderproxy setting up at MoTaCon25
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Learn API testing and Postman with Gbadebo Bello
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Leland Takamine from Maestro
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Dan Caseley from Maestro
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SmartBear at MoTaCon 2025
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SmartBear at MoTaCon 2025
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Bob Salmon: A developer walks into the quality bar
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The Leadership Rule of Seven
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Lesson 0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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Lesson 1 of API Mocking made easy
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Shift-Left everywhere, Shift Smart: A Comprehensive Approach to Vulnerability Management in Application Security
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Shift-everywhere testing
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Why ‘Shift Everywhere’ Is The New ‘Shift Left’ For Software Testing
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Beyond shift left: How "shifting everywhere" with AI agents can improve DevOps processes
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Shift-left testing
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Shift-Left is Dead. Welcome to “Shift-Everywhere” Testing.
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Shifting Left Is No Longer Enough: It’s Time to Shift Everywhere
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Shift Left is Dead
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What Is Quality? Lessons from Experience, Customers, and Context
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Shift-everywhere testing
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Outages in the wild, Cloudflare, Amazon and beyond
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Outages in the wild, Cloudflare, Amazon and beyond
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Internet Outages Timeline
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Outages in the Wild
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem - HN Discussion
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
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Fuzz testing
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Fuzz-testing in the AI era
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Be a Specialist, Not a Generalist: Why Your Brand Depends on Focus
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Shadow work in engineering teams
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Role of Automation
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Foundation models and beyond
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The Search for the Real In Software Quality and Testing
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Testing as Learning - 5 Insights from Oredev 2025
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Working in the Open
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Model-Graded Evaluations: How to Detect When Your AI Judge Is Hallucinating
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The Democratization of Test Automation
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LLMs for Test Tooling
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Memorable encounter
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AI: "You're absolutely right"
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AI and Technical Debt
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 51
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Lesson 6 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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Lesson 5 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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Lesson 4 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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Lesson 3 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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Lesson 2 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
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Lesson 1 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started
Bug congrats!
Bug congrats on shipping MoTaverse Weekly, for the first time in years! 📰🎉
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My Leadership Rhythm: A Practical Structure for Strategic and Tactical Alignment Sessions
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A Human-Centred Feedback Model: How to Give Feedback That Grows People
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Exploring and Explaining The New Frontiers of Advanced Prompt Injection
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You Should Write An Agent
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How we Uncovered a Race Condition in Aurora RDS
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Testing and clearing HTTP Proxy Authentication
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GOT THE JOB !!!!
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🎉500+ Stars on Ministry of Testing!
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We’re Repeating Cybersecurity’s Big Mistake, This Time With AI
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STEC Portfolio - Module 2: What Do Software Testers Do?
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The Leadership Practice of Noticing
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Shift-Right Testing: QA’s Great Leap Into the Wild
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What Is a Principal Tester - 5 Years On
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The five areas of Agile
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QA Engineer
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The Test Automation Crisis
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QA Lead - Unannounced Project
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Mobile QA Automation
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Software QA (Selenium, Java)
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QA Engineer
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Went above and beyond in a given month
Thanks for going above and beyond in October 2025. Your community contributions are much appreciated. 
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Vinted users lash out over sizing changes
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How I Learned System Design
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"The Bug Hunt" blog post pattern
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AI is making us work more
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Invest in test artefacts, they can last longer than the application's source code
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How HSBC, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs reinvented QA and compliance
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Staff QA Analyst
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To learn about the codebase, run the automated tests
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Will the Rise of Agentic AI and Superintelligence Kill All Software Testing Jobs Once and For All?
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Software Engineer in Test
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There are no bad testers only bad systems
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Your URL Is Your State
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Episode 220: Spy Returns
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Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software
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https://ai.meta.com/blog/practical-ai-agent-security/
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I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
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Jenny Bramble: Terrifying Tales of Testing in Production
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Scaling quality through collaboration
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Rosie in the wild
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Rosie in the wild
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🎉 400+ Stars on Ministry of Testing! 🎉
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Using AI Personas in test automation.
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Software Engineer 5 - TV Release Quality
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Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
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Shadow AI
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Shadow IT
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Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft
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Simon Long on the 99 second stage at MoTaCon
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Custom Asserts – what and why
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User journeys in refinement
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Negative space & Testing
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The Quiet Power of Caring
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How many pillars of observability can you fit on the head of a pin?
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Do Ya Still Need It
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AI will replace testers jobs, are we all doomed?
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Guardians of the MoTaverse
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Change Management is Dead. Long Live Change Readiness.
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OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
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Opportunities for AI in Accessibility
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Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System
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