The Testing Planet News at TestBash

1st October 2024
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Talk Description

Join Simon Tomes and his team of global correspondents in this engaging episode of The Testing Planet as they delve into the evolving landscape of AI in Testing.

They'll share insights, poll results, and community feedback on the adoption, challenges, and potential of AI in Testing.

As they navigate through the discussions, they uncover key themes such as the importance of cautious optimism, critical thinking in leveraging AI tools, and the need for community-driven learning and experimentation.

From reflecting on current AI tool capabilities to envisioning the role of AI test buddies, this episode offers a compelling exploration of the opportunities and limitations of AI in Testing.

What you’ll learn

By the end of this talk, you'll be able to:

  • Insights on the adoption, challenges, and potential of AI in Testing
  • Uncover key themes such as the importance of cautious optimism, critical thinking in leveraging AI tools, and the need for community-driven learning and experimentation
  • Reflect on current AI tool capabilities to envisioning the role of AI test buddies
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Simon Tomes

Community Lead

Simon is the Community Lead at Ministry of Testing and his pronouns are he/him. He has a passion for all things testing with a career in various testing, tech leadership and coaching roles since 2003. He particularly enjoys promoting and sharing the value of exploratory testing, leadership, collaboration, creativity and community.
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Melissa Fisher

Quality Engineering Manager

Melissa enjoys talking about all things software testing! She is a blog writer, author of a book called Testing Stories and an International Speaker. In her spare time she is working on creating a nature garden.
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Stuart Thomas

Head of Quality

I am Stuart Thomas, a 30-something year old retro-gaming enthusiast, car lover, and problem-solver based in Shropshire with my wife and our two Dalmatians. I have a real passion for high quality software development and helping others to be the best they can be.
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Scout

QA Lead

I work as QA Lead at Cogapp, a small web agency making websites for museums, archives, and collections. As such, I'm responsible for our overall testing strategy as well as the actual test execution on our client projects. I also love getting my hands dirty in writing actual tests in Cypress and actually all sorts of code. I'm also an organiser at codebar Brighton where we run programming workshops for underrepresented groups in tech.
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