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Jonathan Cole
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Tester with two decades of EPOS experience. A Domain Expert and Cross‑Functional Generalist focused on quality, clarity, and continuous learning. Currently developing automation skills across Web Apps, WPF desktop applications and API testing.

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Lesson 7 of Advanced prompting for testers
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Lesson 7 of Advanced prompting for testers
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Stephen Platten, The Stoic Tester, joins Rosie to unpack how Stoicism, critical thinking, and spotting logical fallacies help testers navigate AI slop and governance gaps.
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Shift Critical Thinking Left: Continuous Critical Thinking in the Test Lifecycle
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Jonathan Cole
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Shift Critical Thinking Left: Continuous Critical Thinking in the Test Lifecycle

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10 ideas to question your quality AI work.
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How do we know AI is doing a good enough job?
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On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
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I had a slightly eventful trip over from Derby in the heat thanks to a misbehaving radiator, so I had to slip away promptly at the end.  I wanted to say thank you for organising such a really ...
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A small repository of Markdown or text files, each describing a specific module or system component, maintained so that testers or developers can load relevant system knowledge into an AI session at the start rather than re-explaining it each time. Addresses the statelessness of AI models across sessions by externalising institutional knowledge in a reusable, session-ready format.For example: a file per microservice describing its purpose, key behaviours, and known edge cases; a file per integration describing the contract between two systems.
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Master the RICCE framework to transition from manual testing to AI-augmented automation by leveraging structured prompting and the Playwright MCP agent ecosystem.
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A template you can use to help pitch MoT Professional Membership to your managers. Adjust as you feel necessary. Thanks to Jonny for nudging and collaborating on this. -----------------------...
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