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Let agents spin up stateful API simulations so they can deliver better work, without hitting your live endpoints.
A celebration of STEC, the Software Testing Essentials Certificate, going live earlier that year. Big thanks to Scott for supporting with...
This was done for TestBash 2024 99-second-talks. Since day 1 was AI-themed, I immediately thought of Shakespeare and speeches / soliloqui...
Published in September 2022, this was written as a 99-second talk. Posting it makes me think I should do another for MoTaCon. We will see...
The Ministry of Testing’s Test.Bash() event on the 28th of October 2021 was a brilliant event, as was to be expected. Despite not being o...
I rarely write ‘serious’ poetry, but this has evolved over the year, and I’m happy with where it ended. I started around May or June and ...
This poem was inspired by the Ministry of Testing’s June 2020 tweet asking, "Who tests the tests?"If testers test… Then what tests t...
I didn't realise how many of these I did in 2019! A bit rushed but less shaky. This poem was performed at Test.Bash() Manchester at...
This poem was performed by me at TestBash Manchester 2019 as a 99-second talk and was inspired by Tony Walsh’s Take This Pen. If you want...
From my TestBash Essentials talk on the Periodic Table of Testing, I was very brave and performed a testing parody of Queen's iconic We W...
Written in 2018, first performed live at TestBash Brighton 2019 as a 99-second talk. Go to 2:41 to see my shaky performance. It was liter...
Written in January 2018In November 2017, I did a presentation at Leeds Tester Gathering. The talk was about how a test manager back in 20...
Ady Stokes
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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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