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Gary Hawkes
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Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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TWiQ Episode 132 - AI debate extended version
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This episode fired me up with the AI debate. I still believe that today, that our systems thinking has never been more important. I was thinking about this over the weekend.From early on in my Test...
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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Do you love / hate AI too?
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I love hate AI: It will replace all human creativity, but...
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I love hate AI: It will replace all human creativity, but...
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I love hate AI: It will replace all human creativity, but...
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Do you love / hate AI too?
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I love hate AI: It makes me feel like I'll never keep up, but...
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I love hate AI: It makes me feel like I'll never keep up, but...
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I love hate AI: It makes me feel like I'll never keep up, but...
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During episode 132 we discussed hot takes. One that came up is that testers love the moment they can say "I told you so", but then feel guilty about it.I would like to argue that that is because te...
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Hot take testers love and feel guilty about "I told you so" moments
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Hot take testers love and feel guilty about "I told you so" moments
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Hot take testers love and feel guilty about "I told you so" moments
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A pessimist, optimist and realist continue their previous discussion about writing. Last time around they were talking about writing about something they're enjoying.Pessimist: I'm much more comfor...
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Write about something that worries you
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Write about something that worries you
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Not too much. Not too little. Just the right amount of chaos. Pretty please!I just re-connected with Amy Phillips, a long-time friend, whose current role is a Senior Engineering Manager. This was ...
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The goldilocks of chaos
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The goldilocks of chaos
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The goldilocks of chaos
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Really enjoyed listening to your insights (especially talking about AI) on this weeks episode.
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"Great article Stuart. 👏 Keeping this as a reference as I'm in the process of influencing a project team to consider observability as part of their ideation and story definition"
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Integrate monitoring, observability, and alerting into the core quality engineering process to ensure systems are as diagnosable as they are functional
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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The forgotten part of quality: paying attention to production
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You did a fantastic job co-hosting TWiQ this week 🙏
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You did a fantastic job co-hosting TWiQ this week 🙏
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Thank you for your great insights at the weeks TWiQ
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Thank you for bringing your hot take today!!
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Great to hear your hot take during TWiQ. Thanks for taking to the stage!
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This Week in Quality
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We are honoured to have Pranav Pandit join us this year in Brighton, all the way from San Francisco!Pranav will be on the main stage with a talk, where he'll share lessons from scaling a large mobi...
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🖖 Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation
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🖖 Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation
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🖖 Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation
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What I think about when I edit
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We're very happy to have Richard Adams joining us in Brighton once again, for a fantastic workshop about RCA (Root Cause Analysis)!RCA is a powerful, yet underused, tool to help us build better qua...
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🖖 Beyond the exception with Root Cause Analysis
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🖖 Beyond the exception with Root Cause Analysis
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🖖 Beyond the exception with Root Cause Analysis
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