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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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Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences
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As 2025 comes to a close, let's gather to reflect on what a year it has been.
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This Year in Quality. Join us!
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This Year in Quality. Join us!
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The "So What" Test
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Quality Unfiltered Podcast - All Things Test Automation
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Thanks for your post: Notes from writing for STEC. Glad to hear writing for STEC helped you improve how you share ideas.
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Notes from writing for STEC
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Testing types - beyond definitions
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Testing During a Hackthon
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Slow and Steady
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2025 top 10 LLM attacks + AI Testing Framework and approach throughout the AI Lifecycle
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What Quality Engineers Actually Care About: Insights from 30 essays, 21 Linkys, and 33k+ Reads
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Quality is a commercial choice: The case for pragmatism
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We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right.
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An exploration of shift right and how to practice it within testing
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A Really Useful List For Exploratory Testers
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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A Really Useful List For Exploratory Testers
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Three Digestible Diagrams to Describe Exploratory Testing
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
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A Really Useful List For Exploratory Testers
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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A Really Useful List For Exploratory Testers
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What Is Exploratory Testing? An Alternative To Scripted Testing And Try To Break It Testing
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Three Digestible Diagrams to Describe Exploratory Testing
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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Great to meet you at Testmas! Lovely to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC.
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Nice one for hitting the temporary "Thanks" limit. We're grateful you want to share more gratitude.
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Woohay! Bug congrats on being the 99th person to register for MoTaCon 2026. 🏆
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Agentic AI Foundation
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The Testing Planet — Issue 12
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The Testing Planet — Issue 12
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The printed edition of The Testing Planet was back at MoTaCon 2025
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The Testing Planet — Issue 12
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The Testing Planet — Issue 12
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See you at Leading With Quality 2026! 🎉
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See you at MoTaCon 2026! 🎉
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See you at MoTaCon 2026! 🎉
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The number of the beast is said to be 666. So I must be a beast at collecting stars as that’s my count before I post this memory.
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The Devil is in the stars
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The Devil is in the stars
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The "So What" Test
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The "So What" Test
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We're very serious about our work.
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
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We're very serious about our work.
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