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Exploring AI as an engineering manager

And AI did the work. Did anyone do the thinking?

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Hi there. I'mΒ Rosie Sherry, and I'm yourΒ MoTaverse Weekly host.

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⏳ Events happening this week: AI Assisted Exploratory Testing with Trowser,  Testing AI When Every Answer Is Different.

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Reducing the cost of curiosity with AI β€” Simon Tomes & Adam Davis
Build for fun, build to learn, build for business. How do the things you build outside work teach you inside it?


Roundtable: AI did the work. Did anyone do the thinking? β€” Melissa Fisher, with Gary Hawkes, Adam Davis & Scout Burghardt
Using AI isn't the same as doing good work.


Curious but sceptical: exploring AI as an engineering manager β€” Simon Tomes & Neil Younger
Explore how AI can support your decisions, research, and communication as an engineering manager, without replacing human connection


Whose voice is it anyway? AI slop, ramblings and the case for a quality feed β€” Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes
Reflect on AI detection tools flagging LinkedIn slop, and building ramblings, bytes and quality feeds instead.


What to do when someone leaves your team β€” Neil Taylor & Simon Tomes

Build team resilience as colleagues leave and your team's knowledge changes shape


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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. It turns out quality, community and education go nicely hand in hand.

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ACCELQ Autopilot uses a coordinated system of AI agents to discover applications, generate tests, execute them, analyze failures, heal test suites, and rerun tests with minimal human direction. Unlike AI-assisted testing tools that still require users to design test flows and apply fixes manually, ACCELQ enables autonomous testing across the lifecycle. Testers can create automation using plain English. If you can describe a test in a sentence, you can build it without writing code. This makes automation accessible to manual testers while helping experienced automation teams scale coverage faster.

Self-healing locators and Anchor Elements adapt to application changes, reducing flaky tests and ongoing maintenance effort. ACCELQ supports unified testing across UI, API, mobile, database, and enterprise application layers, helping teams manage end-to-end quality within a single platform. It is designed for continuous delivery environments where speed, maintainability, and reliable coverage are critical.

ACCELQ was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Autonomous Testing Platforms, Q4 2025, receiving the highest Current Offering score and the evaluation’s only Customer Favorite recognition. ACCELQ also holds a 4.8 out of 5 rating on G2 and received an AI Breakthrough Award in 2025. According to ACCELQ customer benchmark data from 2025, teams report 7.5x faster automation development, 72% lower test maintenance effort, and a 53% reduction in testing costs compared with scripted tools.




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