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Our measures of productivity will need to change or we’ll find ourselves on a never-ending treadmill.
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If you’ve found yourself copying the same setup code into multiple tests, you’re not alone! Luckily, Playwright offers a powerful feature to solve this — hooks.
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I am seeing some very senior people with lots of influence making IMO/E poor decisions on how to frame where we we are with AI in testing
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Putting frequent, short meetings to work for your team
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23/04/25: Ben Dowen and Brittany Stewart explored during a Software Testing Live session. They had the best fun, and so did the audience. Watching professionals explore is a powerful technique...
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Ben Dowen and Brittany Stewart celebrate Ben's mouse pointer life hack during Software Testing Live: Episode 03. Shop 'till you DROP;
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Instead of checking which lines are executed, mutation testing introduces small changes (mutants) to your code.
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Let's talk about how to allocate glue work deliberately, frame it usefully and make sure that everyone is choosing a career path they actually want to be on.
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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. 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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