Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
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Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
Updated Periodic Table of Testing including full-text version
contributed:
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...
earned:
History of the Periodic Table of Testing
contributed:
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.Â
The primary reason for sharing is t...
earned:
Why did testing miss this… Because you didn’t set a risk appetite
Contributions
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.Â
The primary reason for sharing is t...
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...
I often pop my writing into an AI checker to sense-check it and identify anything that might sound too much away from my style. I use Grammarly, and while I reject approx 50% of its suggestions, it...
An excerpt from LinkedIn from my conversation with the How to test this podcast. How to test this podcast clip about keyboard accessibility testingÂ
If you’re using social media, you’re probably using hashtags.
If you’re using hashtags, you’re probably using multiple words.
If you’re using multiple words, you’re probably putting them in a strin...
I watched a program, and someone said, 'think outside the box'. It is a common saying, and I'm willing to make an assumption that lots of you reading this will have heard of it. Generally, it means...
I've created a basic visual for my mindsets model, which will be part of my book, if I ever get it done. I'm after some initial feedback on what folks think. This is handcrafted in Slides, so no AI...
It is bug-congrats me as I'm absolutely flabbergasted that not only have I passed four thousand stars, I caught it on 4004 (lots of stars not found)Â
I was a bit stunned to find no definition of AI in the glossary. We have AI deception, AI evals, AI test agent, AI testing, AI vampire, but just plain old AI was missing. So, I've fixed it. AI Arti...
