Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Podcasting, Review Conference Proposals
STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds
earned:
Decode the Buzzword: Why Harness Engineering Matters Now
thanked contributors on:
Either there’s a serious glitch in the Matrix, or Sérgio Freire and I didn't get the memo that we weren't supposed to show up in the same outfit!
Note the logos: One of us is the original XRAY, and...
earned:
Did we accidentally walk into a mirror? 🪞
awarded Xray for:
Did we accidentally walk into a mirror? 🪞
Contributions
An exploration of how epistemology underpins quality thinking, helping quality people examine what they know, how they know it, and how that shapes their quality choices.
Questions realting to a book on thinking in testing and development
My fellow humans. As a struggling author, not really, I have too many ideas, get easily distracted, and have recently been struggling to make decisions about my book. Regardless of whether it ever ...
Partially back from a two month hiatus - apologies this took forever but it never left my backlog!From the original moment: AMA about Epistemology - the practice of testingAdy asked: "Through simil...
Partially back from a two month hiatus - apologies this took forever but it never left my backlog!From the original moment: AMA about Epistemology - the practice of testingAdy asked: "If quality pr...
I’m 60 next month. June 2026 if anyone reads this in the future. I love conferences. Leeds Testing Atelier is one of my favourites alongside TestBash MoTaCon. Imposter syndrome is a real thing...
The excellent Bryan Jones is telling us how to hit the ground running when testing AI systems. If it just works, what do you test?
Chris Warren takes us through his experience of using AI to create a test strategy. He used it to create some slides and failed to use the prompt he told it to! Great start.
Adam Clarkson of Hippo is using the example of the 2025 cyber attack on M&S in the UK to talk about testing disaster recovery.
