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Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified. 🏆
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Bug congrats on becoming SQEC qualified. 🏆
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Bug congrats on becoming SQEC qualified. 🏆
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Couldn’t resist these socks
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What the duck?
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What the duck?
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Thanks for joining the stage during a wins week TWiQ. 🤩
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Thanks for joining the stage during a wins week TWiQ. 🤩
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Thanks for joining the stage during a wins week TWiQ. 🤩
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Thanks for joining the stage during a wins week TWiQ. 🤩
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Always fun to co-host a TWiQ episode with you. Thanks for bringing the "chaos energy". 🤩
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This Week in Quality
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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The Enterprise Guide to Evaluating AI Code Quality Platforms
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Call for Insights turns 45
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The Arrange, Act, and Assert (AAA) Pattern in Unit Test Automation
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The Enterprise Guide to Evaluating AI Code Quality Platforms
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Call for Insights turns 45
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This Week in Community (TWiC) — Episode 5
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Lessons from London Community Week: Community decay is normal, and that's okay
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Lessons from London Community Week: Community decay is normal, and that's okay
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Lessons from London Community Week: Community decay is normal, and that's okay
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Lessons from London Community Week: Community decay is normal, and that's okay
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Lessons from London Community Week: Community decay is normal, and that's okay
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This Week in Community (TWiC) — Episode 5
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Browsers keep four different pictures of your page at once, and automation bugs live in the gap between them.
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Untangling the DOM: How automation really breaks (and how to fix it)
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Untangling the DOM: How automation really breaks (and how to fix it)
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The Enterprise Guide to Evaluating AI Code Quality Platforms
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I saw a great talking about testing AI.As well as being interesting and funny or provided a practical tool. A new QA pyramid of risk based upon AI determinism. Thank you James
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New testing pyramid
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New testing pyramid
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New testing pyramid
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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What actually sustains technical learning once the novelty fades?
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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Motivation and strategy: the two forces behind technical learning
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What actually sustains technical learning once the novelty fades?
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Earlier this year I had 8 weeks to deliver a project and the pressure started to hit. I spent an awful lot of my time giving feedback and felt like the bottleneck. We don't often talk a...
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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