Ady Stokes | Activities
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The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson
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The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson
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1.8.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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1.6.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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Disaster testing your recovery process
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New test team: 70% put test strategy as the most critical
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An introduction to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines for software testers
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New test team: 70% put test strategy as the most critical
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New test team: 70% put test strategy as the most critical
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What is software quality?
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2.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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4.1.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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4.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Any of my former coworkers can confirm that I can talk about QA for hours at work, where I'm comfortable; where I know the audience. I've never done anything like the insights conversation be...
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Stepping out of my comfort zone
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Stepping out of my comfort zone
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Stepping out of my comfort zone
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New feature equals bugs in live
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Prime Video have put out Spider-man Noir in colour and black and white. There are reports of only one version available in some places. Apps needing updates etc. I love super hero stories, hav...
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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6.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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4.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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We've started to build the Achievements area in company profiles, and the badges for our Partners are now out!So good to see WonderProxy are triple gold medallists! 🏅
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Gold Gold Gold
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Gold Gold Gold
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Gold Gold Gold
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Gold Gold Gold
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The success message is a lie: A technical guide to debugging broken email integration
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The success message is a lie: A technical guide to debugging broken email integration
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Learn how to debug hidden email integration failures across multiple backend layers (from SMTP authentication to application logs) instead of falsely trusting successful frontend UI messages.
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The success message is a lie: A technical guide to debugging broken email integration
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The success message is a lie: A technical guide to debugging broken email integration
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4.3.3 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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8.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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7.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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1.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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 MoT and WonderProxy. Testing wisdom, friendly, testing songs and poems. Great minds think differently. STEC and SQEC Certified.
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