Simon Tomes | Activities
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Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
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The cost of poor quality is high
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Stuart Thomas shares one of his helpful takes on quality during Why does Quality Engineering matter?
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Caught up on the latest trends, shared how AI tools are already super helpful for QA (even if current models are mostly about generating and analyzing stuff). Agreed we need more local meetups on h...
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Tackle the messy reality of AI-coded apps with lessons learned, testing tips, and debugging insights.
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Testing AI-coded applications: practical tips for software testers blog post
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Grabbed coffee, took a breezy walk by the bay, started chatting about a11y… and somehow ended up swapping job hunting tips again 😂 Classic us. Always a good time with this crew!
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 33
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Can you find Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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Online profiles matter more than ever. Enhance them with people in the MoTaverse. Seek help, offer advice, and join events. Read this week's MoT Weekly.
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Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other.
Grateful to be in this room of passionate and serious testers.
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MoT Ambassador Crew
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Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other.
Grateful to be in this room of passionate and serious testers.
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10 ideas on putting care at the heart of quality engineering practices
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Most talks about quality don’t make it into developer conferences. This one did.
LDX3 received over 1,000 talk proposals.
Mine was one of the few chosen to tackle quality leadership not archite...
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Some Saturday afternoon learning.
Watching a mixtute of talks, old and new from the MoTaverse
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Went to hear Christine Pintos headlining talk on Quality at the Festival of Engineering Leadership in London 2025 - such a great talk and the crowd loved it. Here is Christine with other leaders in...
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Karen and Dan at the Pre-TestBash Meetup
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Christine representin' Epic Test Quest
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Serious learning faces in action during a TestBash 2024 workshop.
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It was good to catch up at TestBash.
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Requires essential visiting when in Brighton.
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Street art in Brighton that aligns with our values.
Let's go, with kindness and respect!
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The not so good looking sibling of The Pier
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A group of people having a lean coffee session at TestBash 2024.
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Great memories from TestBash 2024 with sketchnoting taken by Emna for Bastian Knerr's talk.
Data is everywhere and it's testable!
Know your context!
Agile is active!
Learn the new domai...
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Good times were had.
Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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Happy faces with Veerle and Richard at TestBash 2024.
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What's not to love about Brighton Pier on a sunny day?
Photo from TestBash 2024.
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A feel-good memory from TestBash 2024. Simon Tomes, Sergio Freire and Gwen Diagram pose for a happy selfie.
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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Simon, Sergio and Gwen
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A feel-good memory from TestBash 2024. Simon Tomes, Sergio Freire and Gwen Diagram pose for a happy selfie.
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Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London
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On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST).
This year I spoke at the conferen...
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Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...
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How to Design and Execute Effective Social Engineering Attacks by Phone
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Stop thinking in steps. Start thinking in systems.
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Why Employees Are Done with Traditional Leadership (What to Do About It)
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LLM-as-a-Judge: A Practical Guide
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Beyond the Static: How Image-to-Image Generative AI can Revolutionise Product Content Personalisation
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Mitigating risk in large-scale financial data migration
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Feedback Is Not an Attack
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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