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With servers in >250 cities around the world, check your site for localization problems, broken GDPR banners, etc.
Modernise your design strategy with mobile-first and keyboard-centric approaches that create more resilient, accessible, and user-friendly software.
Transition from reactive quality assurance to proactive quality engineering by embedding shared responsibility throughout the entire development lifecycle
Depending on the context, we think in different ways
Discover how diverse perspectives in testing help reveal hidden bugs and build software that works for more users.
A worksheet to help you evaluate your Quality Engineering skills
Apply philosophical thinking techniques from Socrates, Descartes, and Aristotle to improve questioning, scepticism, and observation in software testing.
Explore different mindsets to improve testing, overcome bias, and add more value.
Everyday accessibility testing your whole team can do
Create concise test plans that get read and understood by busy people
Learn about some of the reasons we get stuck and some top tips for getting unstuck
Discover why the term āmanual testingā has limitations and negative impacts on the testing craft and learn to embrace more modern terminology
Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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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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