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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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Legacy Applications Aren’t Going Away. Here’s How to Test Their GUI Properly in 2025
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Why we should all be embarrassed by the WebAIM Million Report
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TestBench at Ziehm Imaging: Variant management for the highest demands in medical technology
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Using the test tooling heuristics in different ways
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What is Chaos Engineering?
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Advising Middle Managers
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What Does ‘Quality’ Really Mean in Software Development?
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QA Test Automation Engineer Interview Questions from a QA Lead in London
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How we built enterprise search to be secure and private
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Resolving Incidents With The Remote Incident Console
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3 Reasons Why Female Leaders Burn Out More than Male Leaders
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Brave Not Perfect: How to Lead Without Waiting Until You’re ‘Ready’
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How to be confident in an interview: Real tips for standing out in a tough job market
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Are You a Hero Engineering Manager? (And Why It’s a Problem)
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Lead how they need: adopting a situational leadership style
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Women In Testing, Part 2
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Women In Testing, Part 1
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HTML is like a camera
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The Art of Maintainable GPU Programming
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Trends in Testing 2025 – How TestBench supports modern test processes
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Adaptive Leadership in Action: What Sets Great Leaders Apart (and How to Become One)
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Evaluating Trustworthiness of Explanations in Agentic AI Systems
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Good Programmers Always Be Refactoring. Refactoring Starts with Testing
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How keyboard testing improves digital accessibility
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Generative AI Act II: Test Time Scaling Drives Cognition Engineering
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Baidu Launches ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, ERNIE X1 Turbo and New Suite of AI Tools to Empower Developers and Supercharge AI Innovation
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The top 10 enterprise generative AI applications – Based on 530 real-world projects
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TBM 357: Perspectives on Change and Improvement
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Quality Software Starts Before Coding
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Good news! AI’s not going to take all your jobs…
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Quality Coaching Scenario: No testing happening
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Creating Focus in a Distracted World
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The Usability Scaling Law: Death of User Testing?
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Creating accessible emails: step-by-step guide
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Introducing Apache Spark 4.0
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Making flex work: How employers can optimize benefits strategies in challenging times
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Multi-Step Grading Rubrics with LLMs for Answer Evaluation
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Building Trustworthy Software: Our Mission at Security, Privacy and Corporate Engineering.
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Why Mattering Matters
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Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work
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Testing without frustration: Low-Code Test Automation with TestBench and Robot Framework
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A day in the life of an engineering manager
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Microsoft commits to Google’s interoperability protocol for AI agents
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Cybersecurity Executive Order: Impact on Industries and Solutions
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AI Can't Even Fix a Simple Bug — But Sure, Let's Fire Engineers
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AI-assisted development needs automated tests
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What I Learned About Annotations in Playwright
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'They yanked their own plug': How Co-op averted an even worse cyber attack
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What Even Is Vibe Coding?
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💼 My Job Hunt – A Game of Rejections, Rewrites & Resilience
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