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James Wadley
Senior Quality & Automation Test Engineer

I break things...

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Effectively lead and drive change as a tester by applying transformational and authentic leadership principles
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James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social
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Boost your career in software testing with the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate. Learn essential skills, from basic testing techniques to advanced risk analysis, crafted by industry experts.
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Short video of a child telling his father that he wants to be a software tester. The lights dim, and his father warns him that there is no turning back and requires total commitment. The child repl...
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A person wearing a headset and looking expressionless, captioned with "When a developer tells you they fixed the bug... But you re-test and nothing has changed." in black text at the top of the image.
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A person wearing sunglasses and a plaid shirt stands holding a weapon inside a building with columns and an American flag. The text overlay reads, "I'VE COME HERE TO CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND FIND BUGS......
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A woman and a man lie in bed under the covers. The woman, facing the man, looks frustrated and has the text "I bet he's thinking about other women." The man, facing away, looks deep in thought with...
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A three-panel comic of a cyclist. Panel one: the cyclist rides confidently with a stick saying, "My code compiled first time...". Panel two: the cyclist puts the stick in the front wheel and says, ...
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Meme with a monkey puppet looking surprised and then glancing to the side nervously. Text above reads: "When the PO randomly tells the stakeholders that the application is fully tested, bug free an...
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A two-panel comic shows two views inside a bus. One side shows a sad person labelled "Developers trying to fix the bugs" looking out at a dull, rocky landscape. The other side shows a happy person ...
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A two-panel meme with a popular TV personality as a tester in the top image celebrating finding a bug near a water leak. The bottom image shows a hand covering the leak with tape, captioned "Dev co...
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A cartoon character looks frustrated while changing a sign that reads "DAYS WITHOUT BUGS" to zero. Below the character, the caption "DEVELOPERS" is written.
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A three-panel meme featuring two people in a car. In the first panel, the driver asks, "The application looks good, doesn't it?" In the second panel, the passenger responds, "I've seen fewer bugs i...
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A comic-style meme shows Batman slapping Robin. Robin is saying, "IT'S A FEA...." while Batman interrupts, shouting, "IT IS NOT A FEATURE! NOW FIX IT!" The background is a solid red colour.
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A two-panel meme featuring an elderly man with a laptop and a coffee mug. The top panel's text reads, "Just started a 1 million requests per second performance test." The bottom panel shows the sam...
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A man wearing a blue sweater and jeans, holding a cigarette, stands outside with his eyes closed and an expression of frustration or exhaustion. The text above reads, "WHEN YOU PUSH YOUR CODE AND S...
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A meme featuring two images of Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants. The top image shows Patrick in a lab coat and glasses using lab equipment, captioned "EXPECTATION." The bottom image shows Pa...
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A person in a blue shirt is pointing intensely at a chaotic wall covered with papers, red string, and notes, indicating a conspiracy-like investigation. The image is captioned "RIGHT, LET ME SHOW Y...
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A man with a sceptical expression turns his head slightly to the side, looking incredulous. The text above him reads, "When you hear a developer saying 'Just say it's a feature.'" The background sh...
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A person is holding their phone with their left hand and using their right hand's thumb to simulate a fingerprint on the screen. The screen shows a fingerprint scanning page with text instructing t...
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A teddy bear sits at a desk in front of a laptop, with a perplexed expression and arms raised in frustration. The text above reads, "Me When I Copy The Exact Same Code From Tutorial And It Doesn't ...
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A popular meme featuring two panels. The left panel shows a woman yelling and pointing, with another woman appearing to console her, above is the old Ministry of Testing logo. The right panel shows...
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A four-panel comic shows an adventurer finding the "Scroll of Truth". In the first panel, the adventurer proclaims, "I've finally found it... after 15 years." The scroll reads, "SyntaxError: Unexpe...
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Side-by-side image of two men aiming pistols in a shooting competition. The image is divided in the middle, with the text "TESTING WITH TOOLS AND PLUGINS" on the left side and "TESTING WITH KNOWLED...
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A man looks back at a woman in a red dress showing the new Ministry of Testing logo, walking past him while he is holding hands with another woman wearing a t-shirt with the old Ministry of Testing...
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Is it a feature or a bug?
Brave enough to release software on a Friday? image
Should we ‘release’ on Fridays or not? Read on to find out what the software testing community thinks!
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Nobody becomes great overnight, it takes years to gain the knowledge and experience to be at the top in your field.
Is fear-driven testing holding your software quality back? image
Discover strategies to find a way forward in imperfect circumstances
An Inside Job: Customising Static Code Analysis for Optimising Internal Tools image
Explore the benefits of testing source code without executing the code
When your data moves house: Practical testing tips for clean data migrations image
Master data migration and ensure seamless software transitions
Supercharging Your Test Automation Code With AI Assistance In Your IDE image
Integrate AI into your IDE to boost your coding efficiency and tackle errors
Social Security Number Validation: A Tester's Guide to Uncovering Hidden Defects image
Uncover the complexities and essential techniques of SSN validation
An exploration of 10 AI software testing tools image
Your guide to choosing the right AI testing tool
Lessons Learned From 20 Years Of Software Testing image
Explore the personal journey and collective wisdom of a seasoned software tester
Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet image
Dive into the handy Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet, new and improved for today's modern testing professional. Support your testing efforts and generate test ideas.
Taming The Beast Of Irreproducible Bugs: Finding Opportunities in Chaos image
Tackle unreproducible bugs through strategic debugging, tools, and collaboration
A Guide to Bug Refinement in Software Testing: Streamlining Your Workflow image
Transform your bug refinement meetings to boost team collaboration and make them a favourite weekly highlight
In-Sprint Test Automation On Agile Teams: Yes You Can! image
Boost Agile process reliability, project engagement and teamwork with in-sprint test automation
The standard Tester:Developer ratio? image
The secret sauce for any software development team to function well is the right ratio of developers and testers.
Test cases...don't write them image
In this hot topic we we witnessed some spicy opinions regarding test cases.
Empowering the team through a QA Academy image
Uncover the steps to create a successful community of practice
Python and JavaScript code languages are the top choice for testers scripting? image
In this Testing Trend we follow on from the discussion, ‘What do you use scripting for?’
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Today’s technology outage, an unprecedented global crisis— started in the USA, is now ominously rippling across the globe.
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Rahul Parwal demonstrates Xmind, a versatile mind mapping and note-taking tool
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James introduces GitHub Desktop as a user-friendly alternative to command-line Git operations
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