Simon Tomes | Activities
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Thank you for your SQEC lesson "Influencing stakeholders in Quality Engineering". It's absolutely brilliant! 🤩
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Viola Lykova explains why teams should stop overtesting login page UI and instead focus on a handful of high-impact authentication journey tests.
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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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Member visited Do you TOFU?
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Why being a thought-worker matters
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Why being a thought-worker matters
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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How do AI guardrails deal with millions of possibilities?
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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How do AI guardrails deal with millions of possibilities?
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Bug congrats on achieving the MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation! 🏆
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08/05/25 MoT London Meetup. Chris Henderson delivers a talk about vulnerability and public speaking. It was great!
Chris, Rosie Sherry and I met earlier to discuss how Ministry of Testing and Du...
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Chris Henderson is leading with quality
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Chris Henderson is leading with quality
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Chris Henderson is leading with quality
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Great to catch up with you, Chris! We're looking forward to more collaboration opportunities.
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A new photo of the team at MoT London!
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MoTaverse team at MoT London
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MoTaverse team at MoT London
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MoTaverse team at MoT London
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MoTaverse team at MoT London
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Bump, Bump, Bump: Surely There’s Another Way
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Today I’m launching something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. A new personal blog about testing, quality, and finding better ways of working.The first post starts with a line from Winnie-...
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Blog launch: Weave - Threads of Software Quality
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Blog launch: Weave - Threads of Software Quality
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OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
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5 Key Takeaways From Moltbook's AI Social Experiment
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I took advantage of free Lovable credits on Sunday to get a vibe coded prototype of a resource that I've spent the past 6 years building in Notion.Partly, I was curious on how easily I could replic...
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I vibe coded a website and I spent half of my time doing quality checks
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I vibe coded a website and I spent half of my time doing quality checks
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This badge is awarded to members who join a Ministry of Testing Chapter.
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6.10.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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6.10.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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6.10.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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6.9.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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6.9.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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6.9.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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Exploring an alternative way to defining exploratory testing and how it can help the whole team
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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