Simon Tomes | Activities
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Judy Mosely mentioned on TWiT how she loves the community stars.
Others chimed in giving our Community Stars (algorithm) much love.
I think it was Mariem who said that she gets a notification...
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I'm listening to TWiT live and it's reminded me to post a memory about my week in testing (MWiT)
1️⃣ I'll start with something Judy said on TWiT about how community is a great place to practice....
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A 360 review of AI agent benchmarks
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The playbook for responsible generative AI development and use
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Thanks for sharing feedback about the Memories feature. Great idea to make it an option to edit and change the image.
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Thanks for your idea to include a share option on an events page.
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I finally got my Community Certificate and Simon gave me a special certificate number. 🤭
Can you decode it?
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Got my Community Certificate! Can you decode the special cert number?
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I finally got my Community Certificate and Simon gave me a special certificate number. 🤭
Can you decode it?
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I found this pic from the memories of TestBash 2024. I and Christine having great talk about Quality keeping the Hat Mode Activated
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LLM safety & security: NeurIPS 2024 insights
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Building a Multi-Platform Testing Strategy: Tools and Best Practices
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How To Write A Test Script? A Practical Guide
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POST/CON 25 Keynote Recap
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Performance Testing Metrics: How to Track With Precision
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Qt World Summit 2025: Future of Tech with the Global Qt Community
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Why Apple skipped iOS 19 and went straight to iOS 26 – the reason makes so much sense
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I’m coming from Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
I am Director for Software Quality Engineering at Sun Life Financial in Canada
I’d love to meet others who are into coaching, personal development, qu...
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Judy Mosley recently launched MoT Music League..I joined her an I enjoyed it A LOT!
We submitted songs, we shared what we like and we had much of fun ✨
Thanks everyone who joined our league 🫰
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Cool to see your wise words featured on the MoT homepage in this memory: The reality of change. Thanks for continuing to share your knowledge with the world.
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Nice one for amplifying Aj Wilson by sharing the story of how she helped one of your ex-colleagues.
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Emily O'Connor shared how helpful you'd been to one of her ex-colleagues who is looking for a job. Nice one!
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Thanks for highlighting that The Club doesn't support a two-character search, such as "AI". Glad we've now fixed that.
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Thanks for inspiring this cool-looking t-shirt!
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I'm so famous they made a tshirt of me!
Get yours on the MoT Store
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AI is making Google Engineers 10% more productive
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Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality
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Apple WWDC25 Keynote
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Discover exciting events and courses, new articles, glossary updates, testing trends, fun memes and memories, hot topics and new collections.
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As someone who started out with zero qualifications I've found that everything that I've learned has been through community.
The stories.
The resilience.
Better practices.
The new possibiliti...
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It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box.
Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product.
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TWiT - Knowing about testing box
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It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box.
Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product.
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Thanks for keeping the convo going and for being grateful for the replies on your Club post: How are y’all measuring product quality?
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The reality of change
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Anne-Marie reminds us of the reality of what we can and can't change when in a leadership position. And the binary nature can be profound when it comes to burnout.
This reminds me of Steven Cov...
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Thanks for the name inspiration Elisse!
I am now MoTher of the MoTaverse, I cannot unsee it!
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Thanks for sharing feedback and ideas on how to better connect the MoT profile page with The Club profile page.
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Thanks for sharing your appreciation for the MoT Continuous Quality course and the folks who contributed to it.
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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