Simon Tomes | Activities
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Members collaborate on common issues and challenges to create better practices
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Members collaborate on common issues and challenges to create better practices
An excellent slide from Emily Webber. I have fond memories of the good thing...
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What's stopping us from testing?
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Risk advisers tell good stories about risks
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What's stopping us from testing?
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What's stopping us from testing?
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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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Jesper shares some examples of areas of friction which stop us from getting to hands on testing.
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Nice one for taking the Ask MoTaverse Anything challenge. Looking forward to reading your insights.
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Nice one for taking the Ask MoTaverse Anything challenge. Looking forward to reading your insights.
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Nice one for taking the Ask MoTaverse Anything challenge. Looking forward to reading your insights.
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Nice one for taking the Ask MoTaverse Anything challenge. Looking forward to reading your insights.
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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Not to mention AI tentacles, quality engineering friction, product-minded testing, and more!
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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"How do personas support quality beyond correctness?"
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Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.Thought I'd put myself out there to try my best to answer any questions about accessibility testing. It's a topic I've a...
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AMA about Accessibility Testing
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AMA about Accessibility Testing
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Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.When we think about quality, many of us jump to ideas of checking against requirements and verifying acceptance criteria...
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AMA about quality beyond correctness
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AMA about quality beyond correctness
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"Can you provide a list of legal accessibility frameworks/guidelines from across the globe?"
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It's Not Kubernetes. It Never Was.
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about communicating that to the developers/automators to get it done?
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Great question from Gary Hawkes.
If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about communicating that to the developers...
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"What skills should people work on to get the most out of being part of a tech community?"
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Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.I'm joining in with the AMA challenge, and I'm choosing community as the topic.Community is my thing, but even after yea...
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AMA about Community
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AMA about Community
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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A collection of questions and answers about exploratory testing
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"Five months of magical MoTaverse moments! Thanks for sharing. 🤩"
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Thanks for asking me a question on my AMA about exploratory testing. It's much appreciated!
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What tools can one use for note-taking during ET?
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Rahul Parwal asks:
What tools can one use for note-taking during ET?I have tried OneNote (personalized template), Yattie, and Xray ET Extension.I still feel that there should be a better tool out t...
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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Ask MoTaverse Anything
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A collection of AMA topics from the MoTaverse community. Build credibility in public, what topic could you answer questions on? What question could you ask today? You never know who else you are helping too.
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"What's the relationship between context engineering and prompt engineering?"
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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Context Engineering is a hot topic in the AI & Agentic AI world.If you feel like you need answers to something around this topic, ask me questions.I will try my best to answer your question, he...
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AMA about Context Engineering
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. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
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