Simon Tomes | Activities
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A very popular dish indeed - looks and sounds appealing...
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"Nice one, Ujjwal. Congrats on probably being the only official tester in the room. Good to get out there mingling with all the good roles in tech. Bring them into the MoTaverse, they are welcome."
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Yesterday was one of those moments where I found myself in a room full of developers and was probably the only tester there.
I was speaking about Property-Based Testing with Hypothesis at the SciPy...
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A still from my first Developer's meetup
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A still from my first Developer's meetup
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AI Orchestration Levels
Prompt EngineeringTell a model what it should do
Context EngineeringDefine context for a model to work in
Harness EngineeringDesigning agentic runs (tools, permissions...
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AI Orchestration Levels
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AI Orchestration Levels
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AI Orchestration Levels
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"I like where you're going with this.
How about something like this?
- Remove the underlined category headers
- Add "Challenging" to the bottom axis
- Add "Open" to the top axis
- Add "Grounded" to the left axis
- Add "Unconstrained" to the right axis"
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Practice testing, log bugs and use tools to level up your quality engineering skills
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Introducing SpaceDucking, a website to practice testing on
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Introducing SpaceDucking, a website to practice testing on
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In my previous 'ask the MoTaverse,' I wanted to know what people thought of my mindset model. You can still comment, but I've done a new graphic. Those who have seen my stuff will recognise th...
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Ady asks the MoTaverse #3
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Ady asks the MoTaverse #3
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Thoughts before MoTaCon: The quality institute
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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I wanted to post on LinkedIn today, about our next MoT Berlin chapter event that's coming up this Wednesday:Casual Get Together @ MauerparkWed, 9 Sep 202617:30 - 21:00 CESTLocation: Mauerpark, Bern...
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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What do you mean, it has been two years?
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Community as a water park
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I stood patiently in a queue at the highest point of the water park. Music blared out as several people spoke loudly in multiple languages as anticipation grew. I reflected on how many people had p...
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Joined Mobile Chapter chapter
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Join us in the #chapter-mobile Slack channel, it's available to join for free. Or contribute resources to the Chapter by tagging Mobile Chapter into Moments or links.
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Joined Exploratory Testing Chapter chapter
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Join us in the #chapter-exploratory-testing Slack channel, it's available to join for free. Or contribute resources to the Chapter by tagging Exploratory Chapter into Moments or links.
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Joined Accessibility Chapter chapter
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Join us in the #chapter-accessibility Slack channel, it's available to join for free. Or contribute resources to the Chapter by tagging Accessibility Chapter into Moments or links.
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Son Huynh walks through everything new in Katalon Studio 11.5. This episode covers persistent memory for the AI Assistant, built-in AI prompt and assertion keywords, a fully redesigned PDF report, ...
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What's new in Katalon Studio 11.5
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What's new in Katalon Studio 11.5
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What's new in Katalon Studio 11.5
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Writing tests is one thing. Keeping them alive as your product changes is the real slog.
Klarent writes, runs and maintains your tests for you, agentic testing for Web, iOS and Android, built...
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🤖 Klarent joins us at MoTaCon 2026 👏
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🤖 Klarent joins us at MoTaCon 2026 👏
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🤖 Klarent joins us at MoTaCon 2026 👏
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🤖 Klarent joins us at MoTaCon 2026 👏
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🤖 Klarent joins us at MoTaCon 2026 👏
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Snapshots (by RadBee Ltd) is coming to MoTaCon 2026!Anyone who's ever had to prove test coverage to an auditor will know the pain of cobbling together a report from five different places.Snapshots ...
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Snapshots (by RadBee Ltd) is coming to MoTaCon!
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Snapshots (by RadBee Ltd) is coming to MoTaCon!
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Snapshots (by RadBee Ltd) is coming to MoTaCon!
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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