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Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
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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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I'm super excited to anounce our 2026 Ambassadors!!
Make sure to follow them on the MoTaverse.
And the 2026 Ambassadors of the MoTaverse are...........
- Ady Stokes
- Ben Dowen
- Cassandr...
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After the loss our last Guardian Cooper, we had a break as a point of respect and reflection on such a wonderful and dare I say unique dog. At the end of December, beginning of this year we started...
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With recent excitement about Chapters, it got me thinking of the first time I ever went to an in person testing event. I had only just switched back from development to test and wanted to engage wi...
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Rewind to my first in person event
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Rewind to my first in person event
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Rewind to my first in person event
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I moticed something recently...partly in myself, but also in the many quality conversations I've had with others.
This shift to quality engineering is MoTivating! People are re-inpsired, perhaps...
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"Definitely! Its given me the MoTivation not only to keep pushing quality engineering improvements outside of my QE Team as we can only achieve so much on our own. We have to bring everyone with us on the journey."
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"I think thats a very real problem that we have in the community. It's great that we influence and help each other in this wonderful community but the next step is really to influence those outside it if we're going to make extra improvements to quality."
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Clare Norman shares a goal: Bring quality coaching to at least one developer conference.
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The dev conference search is on
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The dev conference search is on
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The dev conference search is on
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Maithilee connects gardening with testing and quality and it's great!
How about you, what analogies or non-testing examples do you use to describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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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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4.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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"This is a very important article. We often make the mistake that our testing will find if there are resiliency issues if we have a production like environment, but consciously test resiliency. Thanks for this 👍"
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Test system resilience by mapping failure paths and running small experiments that reveal what users experience when things fail
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The night our “highly available” system went dark: How testers can drive resiliency
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The night our “highly available” system went dark: How testers can drive resiliency
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Apply a four-dimension framework to assess whether synthetic data can be trusted for performance testing.
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Beyond data generation: How I learned to trust synthetic data in performance testing
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Beyond data generation: How I learned to trust synthetic data in performance testing
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Discover how diverse perspectives in testing help reveal hidden bugs and build software that works for more users.
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Inclusive development teams: Why representation matters
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Inclusive development teams: Why representation matters
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Friends of Good Software Conference (Saturday 28 February 2026 1pm CET )
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