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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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What if errors are opportunities to grow? Discover many ways to get involved with the testing, QA and quality engineering community. Read it all in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Definitions of Continuous Quality
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Nearly there! How was your 2024? Join events and discover many ways to learn and contribute with the testing, QA and quality engineering community in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Debrief the week in testing as the community explores debugging wins, building and scaling communities of practice, leadership in testing, and much mote
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Listen to This Week in Resting to hear about fostering continuous quality, building psychologically safe teams, leadership roles in driving quality, and much more!
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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Definitions of Exploratory testing
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Definitions of Exploratory testing
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Definitions of Models
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Definitions of Software testing
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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How multi-talented do we have to be? Read a roundup of news, events and ideas from the testing, QA and quality engineering community in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Explore missed bug reflections, discuss internal QA conferences, and uncover the impact of self-taught learning in episode 65 of This Week in Testing!
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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What boundaries help you recognise issues? Find out what's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community and join events to enhance your career. Read this week's MoT Weekly.
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What is quality coaching? What does a quality coach do? How does quality coaching fit into testing?
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I for one embrace this spelling mistake. It does the job (for now). It still delivers. Funny how we can get caught up in these quality loops and pick holes in things that aren't as important as we ...
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Discover testing trends, exciting events and talks, new articles, fun memes and memories, hot topics and new collections
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Join Simon Tomes and his team of reporters for another round of news
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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What tough calls are on your testing plate? Seek help and advice from the testing, QA and quality engineering community and join events to enhance your career. Read this week's MoT Weekly.
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Items to help you and your new hire get started in their new job
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An app rebrand is quite the testing task. New logos, themes and colours to check everywhere. Sometimes a rebrand can't be done with a big-bang approach.
I spotted this on a walk next to Buckingh...
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What's the connection between risks and quality engineering? Discover many ways to get involved with the testing, QA and quality engineering community. Read it all in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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Tune into Episode 61 of This Week in Testing for community updates, practical testing tips, and a special segment of 99-second talks.
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Be inspired by multiple stories of testing, QA, quality engineering, SDET, test leader career paths plus many more.
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).
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How do community contributions support career growth? Join events and discover many ways to learn and contribute with the testing, QA and quality engineering community in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!)
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How do we amplify the value of testing? Read a roundup of news, events and ideas from the testing, QA and quality engineering community in this week's MoT Weekly.
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Catch This Week in Testing, where Simon and guests reflect on TestBash 2024, share AI insights, and offer tips for applying conference learnings
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Often when we test we end up checking something twice. Perhaps you're in a regression testing zone, working through a checklist, and forget to mark something up as 'passed'. There's that moment of ...
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Something special happens when a TestBash conference speaker comes back to react to one their talks. What's changed? What's new? What's relevant? Discover the power of longevity in this collection of revisited TestBash Talks.
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Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!)
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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