Mr Stephen P Platten
Principal Consultant
I am an award winning (European Software Testing awards, TESTA) tester and QA, with a passion to the best version of myself:
"The best manager, tester, and coach I can be, to be "The Stoic Tester."
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Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 93%
Activity
earned:
Roundtable: AI Learnings and Demos
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This badge is awarded to members who attend their first MoTaverse event.
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I got my front row seat for Stephen's talk on stoicism and testing
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Roundtable: AI Learnings and Demos
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Roundtable: AI Learnings and Demos
Contributions
10 ideas to question your quality AI work.
How do we know AI is doing a good enough job?
Stephen Platten, The Stoic Tester, joins Rosie to unpack how Stoicism, critical thinking, and spotting logical fallacies help testers navigate AI slop and governance gaps.
Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
I'm super excited to anounce our 2026 Ambassadors!!
Make sure to follow them on the MoTaverse.
And the 2026 Ambassadors of the MoTaverse are...........
- Ady Stokes
- Ben Dowen
- Cassandr...
Stephen did a talk called "Stoicism & Software Testing: Ancient Philosophy Meets Modern Methods"
Earlier in the MoTaverse he did a 404 talk on the topic, which I enjoyed watching. I wanted t...
I'm a fan and advocate of Stoicism an ancient Greek philosophy
