Ady Stokes | Activities
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Temptare Omnia - Test all the things
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Temptare Omnia - Test all the things
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We all seek an identity, a brand, or something to help people remember us. I've played with a few logo designs over the years, but wanted something with my name on. I decided to try using AI to cre...
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We all seek an identity, a brand, or something to help people remember us. I've played with a few logo designs over the years, but wanted something with my name on. I decided to try using AI to cre...
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Accessible Hashtags
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Advice on making your hashtags more accessible on social media #MakeThemReadable
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Thanks for showing up for TWiT!
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Classic words from Ben Dowen during an episode of This Week in Testing.
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Thanks for introducing STEC learners to tools that support accessibility testing. Good to see WAVE and IBM's Equal Access Accessibility Checker in action. What a helpful video in STEC Module 16.
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Thanks for being super active on The Club this week.
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I messaged Ady on LinkedIn to confirm when the Leeds meetups were. He not only responded he remembered that I had recently started a new role with a new to me organisation. He offered guidance and options for getting my organisation in greater contact with Ministry of Testing. He is a great advocate for Ministry of Testing as a whole and to the Leeds meetups in particular
awarded Scott Kenyon for:
Scott has been a co-organiser of MoT Leeds for some time and has also given talks and workshops.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in June 2025. Team MoT sees you and appreciates you. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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Updated Periodic Table of Testing, including text list version by Ady Stokes
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The Periodic Table of Testing hadn't been updated for seven years. As well as updating the table itself I've created a text list version to make it more accessible.
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Spike Testing: A Physical Embodiment
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What do you get when a large group of QEs walk into a bar?
Spike testing in production.
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Your 99 second song at MoT London was amazing! We're all talking about it!
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Bug congrats on your lyrics and singing at the MoT London Meetup (26/06/25). It was amazing!
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Huge kudos to Ady for an amazing testing song he brought into MoT 4.0 meet up to London yesterday. Watch the video and sing with Ady.
Also Ady travelled 450 miles round trip to join the meet up ...
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Singing testing song with Ady
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Huge kudos to Ady for an amazing testing song he brought into MoT 4.0 meet up to London yesterday. Watch the video and sing with Ady.
Also Ady travelled 450 miles round trip to join the meet up ...
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Thanks for travelling 450 miles to Mot London!
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New hat who diss?
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I made the journey from Yorkshire to London for the London MoT meetup. The instructions said bring ID. So I brought my new hat with my name on. It worked! PS. Temptare Omnia is test all the things ...
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Once upon a time, I attended a Ministry of Testing event in Leeds, having no idea how large MoT were/are or the community I could unlock. Thank you for being my introduction to MoT and keeping the Leeds meetup running all these years.
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The Product Under Test (PUT)
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Definitions of Product under test (PUT)
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System under test (SUT)
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Definitions of System under test (SUT)
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Thank you for taking part in June's Ambassador catch-up call. As Rahul Parwal says, "Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other."
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Stuart Thomas shares one of his helpful takes on quality during Why does Quality Engineering matter?
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Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other.
Grateful to be in this room of passionate and serious testers.
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Being an Accessibility Advocate - and why you should too
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I was considering updating this, but in the six years since I wrote it, not a lot has changed. I have done a lot of the things I talked about and the reasons are as valid as ever.
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MoT Ambassador Crew
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Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other.
Grateful to be in this room of passionate and serious testers.
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We've been doubling down on the idea of MoTaverse, we are a platform. We are a place to gather.
Whilst, this has been the case for many years, it's not since the past 12 months that we've put ou...
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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Post TestBash Meetup at Ohso Social
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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Technical debt
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
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The One Page Test Plan
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Create concise test plans that get read and understood by busy people
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You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore.
"I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? It is so cool!"
"Sure, I'm a developer. My kids got me ...
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Hello, my name is Ady Stokes
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Hello, my name is Ady Stokes
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About Me:
I’m coming from: near Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK
My role is: freelance IT and accessibility consultant
I’d love to meet others who are into: accessibility, quality engineering, teach...
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About Me:
I’m coming from: near Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK
My role is: freelance IT and accessibility consultant
I’d love to meet others who are into: accessibility, quality engineering, teach...
Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
MoT Ambassador. Currently semi-retired and freelancing. I am, amongst other things, a writer, speaker, and accessibility advocate. Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator and article editor for WonderProxy. Testing wisdom, friendly, testing songs and poems. Great minds think differently. STEC and SQEC Certified. Struggling to write a book about testing mindsets and thinking's application in software development.
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