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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. π MoT-STEC qualified.
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The Global Quality Index 2025/2026: Highlights
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Resilience by Design: Lessons in Multi-Cloud Readiness
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More than 1.1 million public repositories now use an LLM SDK
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GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage
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Security Doesnβt Have to Hurt
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None of us Read the specs
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What system design concepts would you add?
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System Design in a Nutshell
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"So glad Oleksandr could join us at MoTaCon, even if virtually. "
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Olekansandr Romanov was there with us in digital 99 second talk digital spirit.
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"Philippa has arrived!
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Wow what an absolute privilege it was to stand up on stage at TestBash (MoTaCon) 2025. It was my first time speaking on such a big stage and in front of great peers in the Testing and Quality Comm...
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"I hope your aunt's doing ok! π
Good work spotting the 404. π"
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TWIQ or treat: Ghostly bug stories - Ep 110
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Celebrate the spooky side of quality as community members share their funniest, scariest, and most unforgettable stories that turn everyday mishaps into lessons worth laughing about.
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"One, two, Bug's coming for you!"
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Thanks for joining the stage during TWiQ or Treat! Appreciate you sharing your scary quality story.Β
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Thanks for joining the stage during TWiQ or Treat. What can I say about your scary quality story, it was utterly horrifying! π±
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Thanks for joining the stage during TWiQ or Treat. Grateful for you sharing your cautious tale about MUI.Β
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Great fun co-hosting TWiQ or Treat with you. So many spooky stories! π
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"Police app books the wrong person. "
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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.Β
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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.Β
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Thanks for sticking up for us regarding the latest MoTaverse Weekly title.Β
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Great work pulling together a team of article contributors for the Software Quality Engineering Certificate.Β
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