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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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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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4.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Old man syndrome
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I’m 60 next month. June 2026 if anyone reads this in the future. I love conferences. Leeds Testing Atelier is one of my favourites alongside TestBash MoTaCon. Imposter syndrome is a real thing...
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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Testing AI based systems
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What happens if you let AI write your test strategy?
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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What happens if you let AI write your test strategy?
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Testing AI based systems
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The excellent Bryan Jones is telling us how to hit the ground running when testing AI systems. If it just works, what do you test?
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What happens if you let AI write your test strategy?
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Chris Warren takes us through his experience of using AI to create a test strategy. He used it to create some slides and failed to use the prompt he told it to! Great start.
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6.7.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134
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Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134
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Leveraging AI in a shift left environment
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Disaster testing your recovery process
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Adam Clarkson of Hippo is using the example of the 2025 cyber attack on M&S in the UK to talk about testing disaster recovery.
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Test automation isn’t that hard: Leeds Atelier
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"The original AI, actual intelligence. Great observation by Jennifer. "
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Leveraging AI in a shift left environment
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Jennifer Rose gives her first ever talk at Leeds Atelier.
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"Yesterday I learned how to use a new publishing software and that + on emails doesn’t seem to work on Yahoo’s system "
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Yesterday I bought a new journal to write down my daily reflections. One of my questions I am going to answer is what I learned today. In the past I have found this very useful to insti...
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Today I learned..
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Test automation isn’t that hard: Leeds Atelier
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Emily kicks off track one
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Leeds Testing Atelier underway
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We have begun!
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3.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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4.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Leeds Atelier day has arrived
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On the train and excited to see the new venue as I missed out last time.
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3,000 Community Stars
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Too much vibe not enough quality wins - Ep 134
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2.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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6.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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2.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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