To grow your influence, you might have to drop 'quality' from your title

Does the eighty percent refusal rate lead to better quality?

To grow your influence, you might have to drop 'quality' from your title image

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To grow your influence, you might have to drop 'quality' from your title — Rosie Sherry

The sense of loss will be outweighed with the joy of influence


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Implement lean testing strategies that enable small teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently within resource-constrained environments.


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The session kicked off by generating a subject (a tool built to create word searches) directly from its tests. James and Ben explored the software together to demonstrate initial investigative approaches, before inviting the audience to join the exploration.


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Identify, test and improve AI guardrails through a structured, scenario-based framework that addresses common implementation failures and attack patterns.


To grow your influence, you might have to drop 'quality' from your title — Rosie Sherry

The sense of loss will be outweighed with the joy of influence


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Rosie Sherry
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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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