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Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.
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Changing the conversation changes the future
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Celebrating 20 episodes of Into the MoTaverse!
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Joined MoT Sheffield chapter
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Welcome to the MoT Sheffield (AKA ShefTest)!Join us to connect with like-minded community members, expand your knowledge and share experiences in a friendly and supportive environment. Whether you are already an expert or new to the field, we have something for everyone.Let's meet, learn and improve together!
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Summer event of Ministry of Testing Athens 2026: Done. ✔️It was an absolute honor to host Simon Mavi Stewart, Rafaela Azevedo, Diego Molina, Noemi Ferrera, and Wim Selles.
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Summer event 2026
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Summer event 2026
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Summer event 2026
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How to evaluate AI agents
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In the MoTaverse, we believe in the collective knowledge of the community and are working on unlocking it to enable micro learning opportunities.How it works:
we surface insights and we do magic b...
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Learning can happen in any moment, and any insight
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Learning can happen in any moment, and any insight
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We have recreated the import screens users need to fill in for declaration in our test environment. Although I appreciate the devs wanting to make it as close to real as possible, I have to check t...
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Everytime I have to confirm the information is real and correct when filling in testdata
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Everytime I have to confirm the information is real and correct when filling in testdata
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The Community's Guide to testing non-deterministic systems
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Non-determinism is here to stay with AI. So how do we go about testing something that doesn't have a repeatable expected result? This is the collection for you.
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Nice one for taking on the "create a Moment during TWiQ challenge". 🏆
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Nice one for taking on the "create a Moment during TWiQ challenge". 🏆
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Nice one for taking on the "create a Moment during TWiQ challenge". 🏆
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TWiQ episodes now sounds more cool when we see our hosts with cameras on and their entry reminds me of animations - Flying In from Left and Right :) Cool discussions about negative tests, happ...
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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The positive impact of negative tests
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The positive impact of negative tests
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Nice one for taking on the "create a Moment during TWiQ challenge". 🏆
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This Week in Quality
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"While the recipe instructions and ingredients are consistent, how is it that the quality outcome of a cake can vary considerably?"
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Inspired by my manager who explained I 'monkey-barred' to a new job (before I was a tester I was a baker) and couldn't really transfer a lot of skills with me. I looked at him baffled because not o...
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AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software
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AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software
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Thanks for joining the stage during TWiQ. Good to see and hear from you.
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Thanks for joining the stage during TWiQ. Good to see and hear from you.
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Woop! Woop! Thank you, Demi. Awesome co-hostin'! 🎉
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"With poses like that, I think you're great at modelling! 😃"
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Changing the conversation changes the future
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I'm not great a diagraming and modelling, and using negative testing better. So its got me thinking!
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TWIQ 139 - Models and Negative Testing
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TWIQ 139 - Models and Negative Testing
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Changing the conversation changes the future
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In TWiQ today, Aj raised the idea of self-service infrastructure and it got me thinking about how that is related to platform engineering. Something I realise I don't know enough about, but a recen...
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Changing the conversation changes the future
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Changing the conversation changes the future
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Changing the conversation changes the future
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