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Ady Stokes
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STEC 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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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Sometimes all the stars align and you demo goes off without any issues.Last sprint I did a demo of the entire flow through new applications and talked for 20 minutes and nothing went wrong!Do share...
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Demi's Demo Luck
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Demi's Demo Luck
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Yesterday I watched a talk by Phillipa Jennings and they asked us to imagine what type of gate we might be standing next to. For example saying "no" that can't go through the gate. "Yes" this can g...
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Dissolving the Quality Gate - Phillipa Jennings
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Dissolving the Quality Gate - Phillipa Jennings
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Dissolving the Quality Gate - Phillipa Jennings
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"Sounds facinating. You could add a PeersCon tag and create a collection? Just a thought. "
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All the talks at Peerscon 2026 were fabulous and I have scattered notes from each talk that I need to dissect and move forward with. However, I thought I'd share a very unique talk from Ester ...
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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How do AI guardrails deal with millions of possibilities?
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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12.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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9.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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This Week in Quality
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9.4.3 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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6.10.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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7.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Friday, 20 February 2026 TWIQ Nadja was quite rightly complementing Ady on his singing skills. Let it be known that Nadja can kick out a tune too at an impromptu MoTacon Karaoke! Alas I don't have ...
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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Always good to hear Barry Ehigiator and Stu Day have a chat about anything (!) and this case I heard them chat about reporting in a quality engineering context.Barry used the term "Risk Advisers" w...
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Risk advisers tell good stories about risks
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Risk advisers tell good stories about risks
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Risk advisers tell good stories about risks
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Risk advisers tell good stories about risks
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Today I had the joy of meeting MOT Ambassador Rahul Parwal and his family in the very same city where I grew up. It felt incredibly special to reconnect here, in a place that holds so many memories...
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Promise served :) met the moT ambassador in the pink city, Jaipur, India !
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Promise served :) met the moT ambassador in the pink city, Jaipur, India !
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Promise served :) met the moT ambassador in the pink city, Jaipur, India !
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AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-deployment AI Risk Disclosures
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Learn all about 'Would Heu-risk It!' and the power of heuristics with Lena
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Would Heu-risk It?
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Would Heu-risk It?
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Would Heu-risk It?
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Would Heu-risk It?
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