Jesper Ottosen
Principal Consultant
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I am Open to Teach, Mentor, Speak, Write, Podcasting

Jesper has been around the MoT community from the start, frequently passing by the Club and Slack. For more than 10 years he has provided 300+ blogposts on all things testing. ๐ŸŒป

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Awarded for: Passing the exam with a score of 100%
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Awarded for: Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges

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Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
thanked contributors on:
My blog therapy image
I'll admit last week I was quite low. I'd seen over the last few weeks examples of where AI was used by a handful of developers and product managers in a way I felt treated quality with contempt. A...
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My blog therapy
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Gary Hawkes for:
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Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
thanked contributors on:
Community theme evolution across three capability layers image
Found on LinkedIn, sharing here with the MoT community:"Donald Norman argued in 1991 that tools don't amplify cognition โ€ฆ they change the task by changing its representation. A checklist doesn't im...

Contributions

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Slowly and indirectly building support and alignment.A way to approach to delivering value more reliably and sustainably look like https://www.ministryoftesting.com/moments/what-does-delivering-value-more-reliably-and-sustainably-look-like From Wikipedia:Nemawashi (ๆ นๅ›žใ—) is an informal Japanese business process of laying the foundation for some proposed change or project by talking to the people concerned and gathering support and feedback before a formal announcement.
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I was just at a test tool demo today, and I had aย moment. Test cases are no longer carefully crafted and unique, they are generated.Test cases are no longer an atomic unit of measure (if it ev...
What's stopping us from testing? image
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Jesper shares some examples of areas of friction which stop us from getting to hands on testing.
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Staff-level roles and mindset
IDE tooling for LLM work will emerge image
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I'm taking a moment to consider, that if LLM's re the new level of coding (7th generation tooling?), then it will only be a matter of time before we see integrated development environments with/for...
Exploring Friction in Quality Engineering image
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Simon Tomes and Jesper Ottosen recently recorded a conversation as part of the MoT's Call for Insights, where they had a great discussion on both positive and negative types of friction that we can...
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Of course, when Simon and Jesper were talking about friction in a recent Call for Insights, my mind went straight to community. Partly this is because I've long been saying that community is opt...
Friction has a complex relationship with quality image
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How is friction helping and not helping software engineering and testing teams?
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