Simon Tomes | Activities
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How benefits are moving the needle on organizational success
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Getting Started with AI Hacking: Part 1
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Top 3 Useless Quality Metrics (And What to Measure Instead)
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TDD vs BDD: Choosing the Right Testing Approach for Your Development Team
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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
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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