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Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.
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January 2026
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Expanding the Reach of Quality
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The impact of AI on job security
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What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?
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What do your AI guardrails look like?
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Exploratory dreams. Regression realities.
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MoTaCon 2025 – Community
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Meeting Neil Taylor IRL
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My 2026 Goals ✨
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Exploring Systems Thinking - The Testing Planet News - Episode 09
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What is Systems Thinking?
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How is Systems Thinking different from Critical Thinking
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Why does Systems Thinking matter?
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How is Systems Thinking different from Critical Thinking
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What is Systems Thinking?
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Exploring Systems Thinking - The Testing Planet News - Episode 09
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Cosmic discussion: the possibilities of Systems Thinking
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Works as Designed
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Cosmic conversation: Systems thinking models
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Starter goals for 2026
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2026: A Year of Stages, Stories, and Side‑Quests
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Showing up - 2026
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A Small UI Detail That Impacts User Experience
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2026 Goals
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Goodbye Morocco
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The Stars Align
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The Stars Align
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A Day in the Life at MOTAVERSE
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Support without pressure
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Lesson 1 of The Building Blocks of the Internet
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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A New Dutch Chapter Rising: 100 Members Strong and Growing
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My Goals 2026 - Learn, Adapt and Grow together
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Practical Steps to Enable Quality Voyeurs
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Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120
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TWIQ - 23/01/2026
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Bugs are everywhere
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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts
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Can I give more stars than I receive?
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You're absolutely right! We now read the docs.
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Assisted career transition
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Tester to Quality Engineer gap analysis
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Its was great to catch up with you Simon and chat around a range of different quality related topics!
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2026 Goal setting and sharing - TWiQ Episode-119
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MoT Athens through the years
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In 2026 I aspire to do more of the things that give me energy, inspiration and happiness
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From Hours to Minutes: How Wahed Revolutionized Mobile App Testing with Maestro
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Shifting Mobile Automation: Native to Flutter with Maestro (Spoiler: It’s Awesome!)
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Releasing apps (fast) at scale: the QuintoAndar way
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How to Keep Testing When Dependent Systems Aren’t Available
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
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Using AI to help teams shift testing left
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Three basic truths about planning
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Sloppy Hiring Practices
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Stop vibe coding before you delete your repo
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Time to automate the boring stuff
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Doist Team Shares Lessons From Maestro-Based UI Test Orchestration
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Enhance Your App with Agent Skills: A Practical Guide
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Want Better Company-Wide Collaboration? It Starts with Communication.
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Publish my next book
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The single most important lesson for someone new to quality engineering
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Agentic QE: From AI Assistant to AI Workforce
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Community Chatter at MoT London
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Can I give more stars than I receive?
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First step toward my 2026 goal.
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A Really Useful List For Exploratory Testers
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What's your goal for 2026?
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2026 Goal setting and sharing - TWiQ Episode-119
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2026 Goal setting and sharing - TWiQ Episode-119
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Testing Pyramid of AI Agents
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ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
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AI Agents Meet MCP Servers to Revolutionize Software Quality
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What Test Automation Really Pays Back?
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Share Your Experiences Through Writing - Aaron Flynn
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Today's goal
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Testing software smarter, not harder: the shift-down strategy
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Dark Mode vs Light Mode
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The single most important lesson for someone new to quality engineering
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Training the Testing Eye 👁️⚙️
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Not all software is AI-powered. Some are simply ChatGPT-powered.
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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Why are there so many quality engineering misconceptions to explore and challenge?
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Why are there so many quality engineering misconceptions to explore and challenge?
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Why are there so many quality engineering misconceptions to explore and challenge?
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Lesson 4 of The Building Blocks of the Internet
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Lesson 1 of Introduction to JavaScript
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My goals for 2026
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Wow - What an experience! On Stage at TestBash 2025!
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What's really happening the quality space? Watch out for community misinformation.
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Why are there so many quality engineering misconceptions to explore and challenge?
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99 Second Talks - Day 1 at TestBash Brighton 2024
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99 Second Talks - Day 2 at TestBash Brighton 2024
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Stu Day: Building a quality brand
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Training a software tester who’s never tested before
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Maestro 🤝 MoTaverse
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LambdaTest is now TestMu AI. The Next Chapter Begins
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My 2026 Goals: Coming back stronger
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Introductions 2026
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Take MoTe of your goals. It’s very MoTivating.
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Be More Empathetic
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Physical Disabilities in the Workplace: Find a More Sustainable and Supportive Way to Keep Amazing People
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How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
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Staying sane in a post-modern world, from Anne-Marie Charrett
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Leading Through Discomfort
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How I Built an Agentic SDLC Demo with Cursor, MCP Servers, Playwright, GitHub, and Vercel in Under an Hour.
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Physical Disabilities in the Workplace: Find a More Sustainable and Supportive Way to Keep Amazing People
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Mohammad Arif talks for 99 seconds at MoT London
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99 seconds with Dalbir Sehmbi who recommends 8 minutes for men's health
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99 seconds with Francis Kamara at MoT London
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Spike Testing: A Physical Embodiment
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Centralised Quality Engineering teams
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What does accountability mean to you?
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UX Speed Calculator
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7 Steps of a Web Performance Journey
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Pipeline - The Game that Delivers!
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Same optimism. Different tools.
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The only AI I will ever trust
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In 2025 My MoT dashboard has more stars than my night sky ⭐😄
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When Testers are too much attached to testing
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New year. New introduction. New thinking. Same me.
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What does accountability mean to you?
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Are we ready to go live?
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Meeting Simon at the MoT London Meetup
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Simon and Rosie, selfie time!
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The MoT London energy vibes are out of this world!
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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My 2026 goals
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CRAP Metric Is a Thing And It Tells You About Risk in Your Code
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99-second talk: We know - We do - We care - We’ll be back!
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What is the AI–quality–human loop? - Ep 118
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Looking Ahead to 2026 : Satya Nadella
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Apply to be a MoT Ambassador for 2026
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Risk matters more than ever
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Risk matters more than ever
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My year in stars 🌟
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Met Rahul at test bash
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Elevate your career: Become a testing generalist
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts
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Beautiful Evening With Testing Legends
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Cosmic Conversation: What comes next when burnout changes your path?
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Do software testing professionals understand what is meant by systems thinking?
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Gary Hawkes: All roads lead to quality
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ReTestBash UK 2022: Live Q&A with Clare Norman
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Quality Coaching: Level 1
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Risk matters more than ever
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Celebrating going from 999 to 1,000 community stars
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Megan Ozanne - Slow down to speed up
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Back to the basics: Rethinking how we use AI in testing
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Test artefacts can have a 'lethal dose'
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Test artefacts can have a 'lethal dose'
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Fill Up Your MoT Profile (FUYMP) 🫠
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A quality engineer's guide to the Helpful, Honest, and Harmless Framework (HHH)
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A quality engineer's guide to the Helpful, Honest, and Harmless Framework (HHH)
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Risk matters more than ever
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Risk matters more than ever
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Risk matters more than ever
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What does accountability mean to you?
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What does accountability mean to you?
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It's good to talk
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Agent Guardrails and Controls: Applying the CORS Model to Agents
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My Goals for 2026
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Gaming your way to QA resilience
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After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
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My 2026 Goal: From Writing to Speaking
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My year in stars 🌟
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Deborah Sherwood - Scale and beyond: How to grow quality through others
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2025 Review
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Quality Engineers - Who are your customers?
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Demo of Vibium scripted manual install
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Signals in the Noise
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When UI Automation Slowly Loses Trust
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Diary of a QE Leader
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The 2025 Quality Engineering Index: 100 Insights
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The MoTaverse as a Community-as-a-Service
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Testing is...
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2026 Goals
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This Year in Review - 2025
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This Year in Review - 2025
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Ask Us Anything: Predictions & Plans for 2026
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The power of human touch in the AI era
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A Quality Gate Based on Trust, Not Process
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Quality Gate v1.0
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Happy New Year, 2026
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ΜοΤ Athens in Valencia for the Selenium Conference
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"Helpful, Harmless, and Honest"
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Too Helpful, Too Harmless, Too Honest or Just Right?
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‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
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When Amazon emails you saying your gifts won’t arrive until the 29th
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Are your ducks in a row?
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