Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
Senior Quality Engineer
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I am Open to Speak, Teach, Write, Work
I explore the world of software development and testing. Join me as I continue my adventures, discovering the wonders of quality.

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Breaking news about breaking news Ep 87 image
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Explore whether testers should automate tasks over tests. Join Ministry of Testing as they discuss automation trends, career growth, and innovation.
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 25 image
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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23/04/25: Ben Dowen and Brittany Stewart explored during a Software Testing Live session. They had the best fun, and so did the audience. Watching professionals explore is a powerful technique ...
Do new testers really need to learn automation? Ep 86 image
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This Week in Testing #86: Testing Skills, Career Growth & Community Wins
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Vibe coding is where you use an LLM or, like, AI based tool to write the code for you.But rather than writing any code for yourself, you completely give over. And, basically, what you do is you just keep asking more and more times for the LLM. So if it doesn't work the way you want, you don't read the code.You just keep talking about talking back to the LLM.And, you just you just keep, like, if there's an error, you just feed it straight back in. No context, just give it the error.
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This debate explored the role of quality coaching, how it differs from quality engineering and where it is most effective
Does the happy path make us happy? Ep. 84 image
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Unpack quality coaching, job titles, happy paths, and pull request templates in an episode full of candid chat and personal stories
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Explore accessibility testing with Ben and Jane
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Where you work, makes a huge different to the opportunities you have to explore and execute on different parts of your job, different tools from your tool box you get to use.
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That time Ministry of Testing missed the brief, and instead of unlimited membership, built unlimited members.
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That time Jane joined This Week in Testing trice, and MEMEs needed to be made.
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