Deborah Reid | Activities
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Test accessibility without being an expert YoyTube
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Last week I was feeling positive and excited for AI.And then last night I was feeling meh about it.I recognised this is a pattern for me. That goes round and round. A constant mood change. Exciteme...
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Yay AI. Meh AI.
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Yay AI. Meh AI.
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Stunned to see I have reached 2,500 community stars from the MoTaverse. Thank you, everyone, for thanking me, completing my lessons, reading my articles and encouraging me every day to do more.
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Wow! 2,500 Community Stars
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Wow! 2,500 Community Stars
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Grey box testing sounds rather innocuous, but it has a special place. It's the 100th term I've added to the glossary. Help create the largest testing terminology repository in the world for the MoT...
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100 terms added to the Glossary
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100 terms added to the Glossary
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AI Guardrails in one sentence, thanks to James Pearce.
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What are AI guardrails?
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What are AI guardrails?
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What are AI guardrails?
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"I remember this!"
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Yesterday I bought a new journal to write down my daily reflections. One of my questions I am going to answer is what I learned today. In the past I have found this very useful to insti...
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Today I learned..
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Today I learned..
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Influence, from the other side of the table
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What I learned about influence by becoming a stakeholder
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE?
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE?
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AI Chapter
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From ad-hoc prompting to Agentic Engineering: Latest trends in AI
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE?
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How does Wimbledon relate to success in QE?
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James Pearce shares a practical framework for testing AI products by making them more verifiable, measuring risk clearly, and learning safely from production.
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Engineering quality in an AI based product
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Engineering quality in an AI based product
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A panel discussion exploring how AI is really affecting engineering teams today, from tool adoption and team confidence to testing, leadership, and the risk of over-relying on automation.
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Practical impact of AI on today’s engineering management
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Practical impact of AI on today’s engineering management
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Practical impact of AI on today’s engineering management
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Practical impact of AI on today’s engineering management
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Practical impact of AI on today’s engineering management
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Preeti Gupta explains how teams can adopt AI in test automation while keeping human judgement, ownership, and quality at the centre.
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Growing with AI: Transforming test automation without losing the human edge
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Growing with AI: Transforming test automation without losing the human edge
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"I was sad to miss your talk but hope to watch when they share the videos!"
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Earlier this year I had 8 weeks to deliver a project and the pressure started to hit. I spent an awful lot of my time giving feedback and felt like the bottleneck. We don't often talk a...
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Together, We Find Solutions
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Together, We Find Solutions
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Together, We Find Solutions
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A few months ago, running 10k felt like something very distant (literally speaking). Not me! I could list every reason why I shouldn't do it: no time, no fitness, no experience, no idea where to ev...
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What my first 10k taught me about showing up in the MoTaverse
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What my first 10k taught me about showing up in the MoTaverse
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RoboCon 2027: Online 7-9 April 2027
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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