Simon Tomes | Activities
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What methods have you found helpful to ensure exploratory testing stays focused?
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Great question from Megan Ozanne.
I have always found Exploratory tours a really useful method to guide Exploratory testing. What methods have you found helpful to ensure Exploratory testing statu...
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"Thanks for your answer. It's super insightful!"
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This question is taken from the AMA about quality beyond correctness, and comes from Simon Tomes.
How do personas support quality beyond correctness?
Personas are a great tool, which can be used fo...
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How do personas support quality beyond correctness?
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How do personas support quality beyond correctness?
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How do personas support quality beyond correctness? How do personas support quality beyond correctness?
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This question is taken from the AMA about quality beyond correctness, and comes from Simon Tomes.
How do personas support quality beyond correctness?
Personas are a great tool, which can be used fo...
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"What an excellent set of questions. Nice one, Cassandra.
And that last question is quality right there. 🤩"
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This question is taken from the AMA about quality beyond correctness, and comes from Rosie Sherry.
What questions can we explore to help the team build the right thing?
I love that this question fo...
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What questions can we explore to help the team build the right thing?
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What questions can we explore to help the team build the right thing?
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What questions can we explore to help the team build the right thing?
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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When first seeing the Friction commentary, a specific moment came to mind. Often friction is a call to improve. The friction exists due to a need not being met, a shortcoming in your practices or u...
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Human Friction: Peer feedback through pull requests
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Human Friction: Peer feedback through pull requests
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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.
awarded Cassandra H. Leung for:
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
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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