I didn't realise how many of these I did in 2019! A bit rushed but less shaky.  This poem was performed at Test.Bash() Manchester at their 99-second talks. Go to 9:20 to hear me perform it. Th...

This poem was performed by me at TestBash Manchester 2019 as a 99-second talk and was inspired by Tony Walsh’s Take This Pen. If you want to hear a real poet, please use the link. It is beautiful. ...

From my TestBash Essentials talk on the Periodic Table of Testing, I was very brave and performed a testing parody of Queen's iconic We Will Rock You. Memorable for several things. I changed the ly...

Written in 2018, first performed live at TestBash Brighton 2019 as a 99-second talk. Go to 2:41 to see my shaky performance. It was literally the first time reading my poetry to a crowd since being...

Written in January 2018In November 2017, I did a presentation at Leeds Tester Gathering. The talk was about how a test manager back in 2005 pitted testers and developers against each other by using...

Written in 2017 ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling was written in 1895.  Here’s my version, if Rudyard were a tester. Please excuse the artistic licence!  'If' by Ady Stokes  If you can ke...

First published on The Big Test Theory.com in August 2017 Why categorise? There are several reasons, some more personal than others. Entering my 52nd year of visiting Planet Earth, my mind nee...

First published on The Big Test Theory.com in June 2017. PS Personas – Technique Element   Sub-section – ApproachesPersonas element from the Periodic Table of Testing There are lots of ...

This was updated in June 2025. It has been quite some time since I last updated my Periodic Table of Testing. The 10th of December 2018, to be exact. Creating a more accessible version of the table...

Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read my moment. If you have any comments, feedback, or questions, I'm eager to hear them, so please get in touch.  The primary reason for sharing is t...

Lisa Crispin linked Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki over on the MoT Slack. The idea: instead of re-reading raw sources every time you have a question, you let an LLM maintain a compounding, cross-linked...

Running a root cause analysis only addresses half of the problem. Instead of asking, why did we miss this. Ask, why didn’t we think of this?  Fixing a process or writing a missing automat...