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Marie Cruz
Senior Developer Advocate
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Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with over 10 years of experience and the co-author of the book Contract Testing in Action. Currently, she works as a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs.
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Performance Testing 101
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Lessons Learned As A Quality Engineering Manager
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Tooling for Automated Testing with Marie Drake
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Ask Me Anything - Marie Drake
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London meetup Networking
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Eamon's first 99 second talk at MoT London
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Contract testing
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User stories
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Heuristics
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Test ideas
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MoT Athens Meetup 2023
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Let's Play the Waiting Game!
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TestBash UK 2023 (Selfie with Beth and Russell!)
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This badge is awarded to members who contribute content towards a Ministry of Testing certification.
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Definitions of Contract testing
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A lovely memory of the one and only Diana with my daughter, Gabby, at the MoT Athens Meetup 2023.
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This is the activity card for the TestBash Liverpool 2023 activity, Let's Play the Waiting Game, in which we learned about the psychology behind waiting and performance.
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Taking selfies with Beth Marshall and Russell Craxford at TestBash Liverpool 2023.
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Meaningful conversations with Marie Cruz and Christine Pinto. Grateful for the London meetup experience.
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03/04/2025. Another milestone for Eamon Droko. His first time speaking at a meetup and what a wonderfully kind and inspirational talk it was. Eamon shared gratitude for the Ministry of Testing comm...
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We talk about pact nirvana and how to achieve it, celebrating small wins, benefits of contract testing, enabling developers to test with modern tools and managing contracts at scale with Pactflow.
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Definitions of User stories
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Definitions of Heuristics
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Definitions of Test ideas
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Boost your career in software testing with the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate. Learn essential skills, from basic testing techniques to advanced risk analysis, crafted by industry experts.
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Marie and Nate provide a comprehensive guide to choosing the most suitable testing tools for various projects
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As humans, we have been exposed to a lot of waiting times.
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Learn about the importance of perceived performance and how it differs from objective performance.
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Discover why page speed matters to deliver a product closer to our users' needs
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In this Masterclass, Marie Cruz describes the psychology of waiting and how it relates to web performance. Learn ways to make websites faster for both objective and subjective performance measures.
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Learn about the key differences between front-end and back-end performance testing and why it’s needed to perform both
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Marie Drake solves the UI challenge from Test.bash(); 2022 using K6.
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Elevate your UI to new heights with valuable perspectives from automation gurus
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Marie Cruz joined us at ReTestBash UK 2022 for a live Q&A session after her talk Performance Testing 101 and we had some very interesting questions and answers.
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Find out how to get solid test automation practices in place
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ReTestBash UK 2022 is an online version of TestBash UK 2022, which took place in September, Manchester, UK
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Discover what inspired TestBash UK 2022 attendees in our 99 Second Talks
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