Simon Tomes | Activities
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"Emails never stop sending."
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Another wonderful meet up in Auckland where we learnt about Spark NZ's adoption journey to AI in testing.
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From Friday, the 31st of October, TWiQ or Treat, this week in quality session. I told a horror story of triggering emails that wouldn't stop coming. What was supposed to be one was thousands. We ca...
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"MUI!!!!!!!"
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Image inspired by This Week in Quality, after sharing the story of our latest upgrade to MUI. They remove the test-ids in production. Why???
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Inspired by Judy Mosley's scary story today on TWiQ!
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"I deleted my testing database or was it prod?"
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You've got 10 words to create a scary story
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Eamon is here to break boundaries and is actively looking to do 99 "99 second talks".
I think this was number 9, or 10?
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Vu Tran from Katalon took to the stage to do a 99 second talk on behalf of Katalon
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Strengths:
- eats bugs
- loves routine
- abhors chaos
- alerts her people to anything out of the ordinary
Weaknesses
- eats bugs
- loves routine
- abhors chaos (Don't try to give Judy a h...
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Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down in Microsoft global outage
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Solve stubborn bugs faster by breaking things on purpose, questioning your assumptions, and thinking your way to clarity.
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AI conversations in a virtual Lean Coffee format
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A template you can use to help pitch MoT Professional Membership to your managers. Adjust as you feel necessary.
Thanks to Jonny for nudging and collaborating on this.
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Cool to see your Claude post featured on the MoT homepage.
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Ever been writing automated tests with an AI code assistant, only to have it completely forget the framework you're using? Or start generating tests that don't match your page object patterns? Yeah...
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"Fascinating insight and learnings. Thanks for sharing! "
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Thanks for sticking up for us regarding the latest MoTaverse Weekly title.
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Thanks for sticking up for us regarding the latest MoTaverse Weekly title.
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Great work pulling together a team of article contributors for the Software Quality Engineering Certificate.
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Buggy cash machine
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Spotted this bug whilst taking out some cash from a cash machine.
However, the service worked seamlessly. Card goes in, PIN number entered, service selected. Cash pops out.
Zero issues. Job...
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Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into Your Product
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Discover what’s possible when you shift your testing left and do it well
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Explore how GenAI is changing quality by increasing complexity and uncertainty, making visible confidence more critical than ever.
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How Google defines quality as part of developer velocity
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"Great news!
Richard's knowledge and experience is fantastic. "
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"Boo Bug! "
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I was getting annoyed that the default MoTaverse pic looked just like me.
It's time for a new profile pic!
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Thanks for sharing feedback about the MoTaverse Weekly email.
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"I'm hearing you, Ashutosh.
The power of selfies and photo memories. 😃"
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Nice one for amplifying Judy Mosleys article: Wide open spaces: A thought worker's guide to asking good questions
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Thank you for continuing to post all the job adverts. It's a great way to contribute to the community, to help folks discover their next opportunity.
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"Thanks for posting, Samarth. Congrats on building what sounds like a helpful framework.
Out of interest, what's the difference between application feature testing and application stability testing?
Would application stability testing include things..."
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This Week in Boundary Testing
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This Week in Boundary Testing
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We were so close. The limit for the number of people on stage is 10. We got to 9. Next time we need to try for 11 to see what happens. 😃
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We were so close. The limit for the number of people on stage is 10. We got to 9. Next time we need to try for 11 to see what happens. 😃
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Glad more folks will get to meet/know you via your introduction on The Club. Nice one, Richard. 🙂
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Thanks for taking a moment to introduce yourself on an introductions thread. 😃
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Thanks for introducing yourself on an introductions thread. I'm glad folks get to meet you!
awarded Gary Hawkes for:
Thanks for introducing yourself on an introductions thread. I'm glad folks get to meet you!
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 48
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Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull reflect on their influence and impact. But can you find them?
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Quality people in the MoTaverse have influence and impact
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N: I'll have some tea.
N: *gets hot water from the machine on the left*
N: Oh, they have hot chocolate as well!
L: That's fine, I'll take the hot water then.
N: *accidentally gets plain hot mi...
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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