Simon Tomes | Activities
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 30
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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What's the one thing you'd like your head of engineering to know about quality? Find out what's been happening in the testing, dev and quality engineering MoTaverse. Read this week's MoT Weekly.
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A number of TestBash volunteers around a table at lunch.
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Fixing a bug vs fixing a feature
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A treasure trove of knowledge open to all.
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We check how many items are in the MoT Glossary each week. As at 02/06/2025 there are 178 terms and...
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From Feedback to Fuel: Turning Constructive Criticism into Career Growth
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Miles and Milestones: The Marathon of Agile Delivery
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Cyber-attacks at M&S, Co-op & Harrods
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LLM Optimization: LoRA and QLoRA
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Up and Coming ARIA
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Introducing: The Women in Testing Newsletter
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Are You Over-Engineering Your Tests?
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Was a professional member in 2025
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Top 5 GUI Testing Pitfalls Enterprise Teams Must Address (and How to Do It)
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Leave Complexity Behind: No-Code Test Automation with Low-Code integration via Robot Framework and TestBench
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Backpressure Isn’t a Bug: It’s a Feature for Building Resilient Systems
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If the AI is so Smart – Why Can’t it Do Things Without me Asking? [Part 1 of 2]
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The Future of Web Design: Will We Even Recognize It in 100 Years?
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The Three Mindsets of a Quality Engineer
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Design system documentation is essential–as long as it’s good
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Some thoughts on LLM usage in my work
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Platform Engineering: measuring your success
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9: Testing for Engineers
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Salesforce UI Automation: POM vs UTAM vs TestZeus Hercules
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Test Automation As You Go: Redefining The Definition Of Done For Quality Software
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Why the Copilot Route Is a Flawed Strategy for Software Testing
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Turn Any GitHub Repository into an Interactive Visual Diagram!
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Revenge of the junior developer
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Glue work - benefits and pitfalls | Episode #29
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An observation that might tell us something about what lies beneath the tools we use directly.
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A Practical Guide to Indexing JSON in MySQL
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Exploring the Culture of Quality
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Meta’s Full-stack HHVM optimizations for GenAI
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The Goldilocks Guide to Leadership
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The Pesticide Paradox in Test Automation Maintenance
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Google I/O '25 Keynote
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An example of using the cypress-rest-easy plugin
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Leading while learning: Why great managers don’t have all the answers
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OWASP Education and Training Committee update
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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