Deborah Reid | Activities
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Designing self‑explaining test automation for fast root‑cause diagnosis
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Learn how to get faster feedback, fewer blocked merges and better trust in automation.
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How do exploratory testing and intuitive debugging and link to Father's Day?
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Thank you for writing the glossary term for Spec Driven Development!
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It feels surreal to me, but I've passed 3,000 community stars. Last week I earned 112 and awarded 97. It is easy to show your appreciation by thanking or giving stars. Who will you give a star to n...
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3,000 Community Stars
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3,000 Community Stars
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I made it to 404 stars! Guess I don't have any excuse to not join the TWiQ stage this Friday...
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A Claude Skill to copy or spark inspiration
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Gif Maker with Claude
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Gif Maker with Claude
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The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson
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AI can't care
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Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland app users hit by outage
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How does driving relate to digital accessibility?
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How does sitting in traffic relate to QE and exploratory testing?
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How does yoga relate to goal setting?
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Vibe coding, agentic engineering or coding, conversational programming, and others are terms for using AI (Artificial Intelligence, not actual intelligence) to create code, products and systems. Th...
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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We are very excited to announce René as a speaker at MoTaCon!Imagine a bug in your test suite quietly correcting its own behaviour before you even touch the code. For René, this wasn't a glitch in ...
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đź–– The curious case of the self correcting bug
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đź–– The curious case of the self correcting bug
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đź–– The curious case of the self correcting bug
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I believe this was TestBash Brighton 2016.If I recall correctly Deborah Reid did a 99 second poem, I could be wrong.In the back I recognise Emma Keaveny, Neil Taylor and Maaret Pyhäjärvi.Long live ...
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
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Throwback Wednesday: Deborah Reid 99 Seconds at TestBash Brighton
Deborah Reid
Lead Test Engineer
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Deborah has been testing for about 15 years now. She is currently Lead Test Engineer at Bloom and Wild group. She specialises in exploratory and risk based testing with a passion for accessibility. Deborah has written a course for MoT on an Introduction to Accessibility Testing as well as an article on speaking at a Conference for the first time, spoken at an AMA on Soft Skills and more!
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