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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
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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1.4.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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Prioritise high-impact user journeys and critical risks over exhaustive checklists to ensure essential product functions remain reliable and user-focused through a product-minded testing approach.
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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1.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Get your work recognized: write a brag document
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First ‘long’ walk
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Since I found out that my chronic back pain was caused by having one leg over 2cm longer. Since using a heel lift I’ve slowly been building up my walking. In honour of the Ingrow Cricket Club boys ...
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I'm taking a moment to consider, that if LLM's re the new level of coding (7th generation tooling?), then it will only be a matter of time before we see integrated development environments with/for...
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IDE tooling for LLM work will emerge
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IDE tooling for LLM work will emerge
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IDE tooling for LLM work will emerge
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5.3.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Loved having a chat with Jesse. We talked about our work and he gave me a very powerful story about his role and the work he did to be present in understanding the product and how its used, rather ...
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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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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9.5.0 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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6.9.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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17.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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7.1.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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7.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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6.9.0 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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