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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Podcasting, Review Conference Proposals
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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Lone Tester AMA Answer - How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?
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3.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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2.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Lone Tester AMA Answer - How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?
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4.3.1 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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"Great answer, thank you "
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After putting out a call for AMA about Working as a Lone Tester, Ady Stokes asked, "How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?" This is a big question. Let's di...
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Lone Tester AMA Answer - How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?
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Lone Tester AMA Answer - How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?
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1.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Lone Tester AMA - How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?
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After putting out a call for AMA about Working as a Lone Tester, Ady Stokes asked, "How do you balance testing and influencing the team to make quality a priority?" This is a big question. Let's di...
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99 Second Talks – Day 1 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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99 Second Talks – Day 1 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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2.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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AI is stateless.It doesn't know or remember anything about you. The state has to be managed externally. You share your context with it via "prompts".For a normal AI chatbot (eg, ChatGPT), you...
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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AMA Answer: What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?
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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
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The Book That Talked Back
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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Everyday accessibility: 7 ways to do a little a11y every day
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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Link was chosen by the Goddesses of Quality Assurance to guard the realm from the Great Calamity (otherwise known as "Deadlines"). He spends his days navigating the complex labyrinths of offic...
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Link - Guardian of the MoTaverse
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Link - Guardian of the MoTaverse
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"Beautiful floofs <3"
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Luna - our white Lion from Sirius, protector of the realm.Munja (eng. Flash) - our Black Lightning, a shadow hunter.
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Luna & Munja (Flash) - Guardians of the MoTaverse
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Luna & Munja (Flash) - Guardians of the MoTaverse
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Richard Adams asks:
How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
Things that I've found helpful:
Establishing an agreement th...
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
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How do you engage stakeholders, such as devs & product, with the findings from your exploratory testing session?
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A realtime exploratory testing session: 20-minute tester experiment video 1
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An Introduction to Observability & Telemetry
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Start Exploratory Testing Today – Risks & Questions
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Some of us stayed behind for the final group picture, before we said our 'goodbyes' and 'thank yous' from what was a great evening, with great talks and great conversations!We well went home with a...
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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The group picture!
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