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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.
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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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I heard this on a recent Call for Insights (with Simon Tomes and Louise Woodhams), and it made me chuckle.
It's in reference to making attempts to shifting-left, but not really feeling the resul...
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Exploring My Reports
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Community, care and friction
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Of course, when Simon and Jesper were talking about friction in a recent Call for Insights, my mind went straight to community.
Partly this is because I've long been saying that community is opt...
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Thanks for taking the time to chat today, I appreciate it!Â
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Memory Mondays Community Certificate
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Remember these?
One year on.
Before ✨ stars ✨ every ✨ day!
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Great to explore article ideas with you and Gary. I look forward to seeing how those ideas evolve.
awarded Gary Hawkes for:
Great to explore article ideas with you and Nadja. I look forward to seeing how those ideas evolve.
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Joined MoT Newcastle chapter
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The MoTaverse exists to advance the quality engineering and software testing industry in a fun, safe, professional and forward-thinking way.MoT Newcastle Chapter events exist as a way to bring people together to gather and learn about all things quality.Â
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Testing community renews faith in testing
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Great to chat with you on a call for insights. I very much enjoyed our conversation and I look forward to others listening to it. Thanks!Â
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There's no such thing as a testing mindset
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There's no such thing as a testing mindset
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Testing community renews faith in testing
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On being an information spreader
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800+ Stars in MoT
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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The shift from scripting steps to designing prompts and AI guardrails has begun
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Louise Woodhams shares why many testers struggle to ask for help.
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Why many testers struggle to ask for help
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Why many testers struggle to ask for help
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Why many testers struggle to ask for help
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Why many testers struggle to ask for help
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Louise Woodhams shares why many testers struggle to ask for help.
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Louise Woodhams shares why many testers struggle to ask for help.
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There's no such thing as a testing mindset
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
awarded Gaurav Khurana for:
Thanks for feature testing the My Reports feature. We appreciate your feedback.
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Maithilee connects gardening with testing and quality and it's great!
How about you, what analogies or non-testing examples do you use to describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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Gardening meets testing. What analogy helps you describe testing and quality?
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After the loss our last Guardian Cooper, we had a break as a point of respect and reflection on such a wonderful and dare I say unique dog. At the end of December, beginning of this year we started...
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River - Guardian of the MoTaverse
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