Simon Tomes | Activities
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Cool to see your latest Call for Insights featured on the MoTaverse homepage. 🤩
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The power of proactive patience
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The power of proactive patience
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Are we ready? How quality coaches and engineers can use patience to support their teams.
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The power of proactive patience
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The power of proactive patience
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Are we ready? How quality coaches and engineers can use patience to support their teams.
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The power of proactive patience
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This is part of The Ahh Test collection.The Ahh Test is a model to help us make better decisions. It is a binary feel good signal for decision making that helps everyone stay focused on the goals ...
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What is The Ahh Test?
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What is The Ahh Test?
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"Answers about podcasting are available on this collection: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/collections/ama-about-podcasting
Yet please do keep the questions coming."
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"Answers to the above questions are available on this collection: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/collections/ama-about-exploratory-testing
Yet please do keep the questions coming."
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What methods have you found helpful to ensure exploratory testing stays focused?
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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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"So glad to see Rahul will be running a workshop at MoTaCon. 🤩
Context engineering is super important right now and I have a good feeling attendees will value learning from Rahul's expertise."
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Please welcome Rahul Parwal to the MoTaCon crew!Rahul has been a pillar of the MoTaverse community, known for his expertise in testing, automation and AI, he’s been instrumental in shaping what's h...
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🖖 Rahul is he’s in the top 1% of the world...
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🖖 Rahul is he’s in the top 1% of the world...
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🖖 Rahul is he’s in the top 1% of the world...
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Great to speak with you on a Call for Insights. So good to learn from your knowledge and experiences. 🤩
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Feature flags entered our workflow as a quality safeguard.
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Testing with feature flags: what we expected and what actually happened
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Testing with feature flags: what we expected and what actually happened
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Bug congrats on achieving the MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation (MoT-FCTA). 🏆
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The lost art of discernment
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The medium matters
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Great to talk with you on a Call for Insights. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences. 🤩
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Bug congrats on becoming SQEC qualified!
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Project Glasswing Securing critical software for the AI era
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Testing Tools - The Testing Planet News - Episode 03
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This is part of The Ahh Test collection.We've been going through big internal transformation at MoTaverseHQ. I wasn't sure how we needed to change, but it wasn't an option not to. Our commitment h...
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The Beginnings of The Ahh Test
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The Beginnings of The Ahh Test
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Bug congrats on becoming SQEC qualified! 🏆
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19.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Check out the future of quality & tech, as we reveal the full crew of contributors for MoTaCon 2026
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🖖 The MoTaCon 2026 crew revealed
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🖖 The MoTaCon 2026 crew revealed
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AI state of the union: Reflections Part 2
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Reflections whilst watching: An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming with Simon Willison.20 mins to 40 mins.
The bit that used to take the longe...
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Why Quality Engineers Matter in the AI Era
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I was asked, “What has the #MoTaverse ever done for us?”So I replied…“You mean apart from publishing my articles, supporting my learning, giving me on‑demand courses and certificates to learn ...
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I was asked, “What has the #MoTaverse ever done for us?”
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I was asked, “What has the #MoTaverse ever done for us?”
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98% Say Agentic AI to Speed Software Delivery from ‘Pilot Purgatory’ in New Report by SoftServe and MIT Technology Review
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.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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