Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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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
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Passing the exam with a score of 100%
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Passing the exam with a score of 100%
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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A 'good problems' episode about production-testing drama, MoTaverse growth, new voices, lifelong learning, and how community conversations help people keep going.
A celebration of STEC, the Software Testing Essentials Certificate, going live earlier that year. Big thanks to Scott for supporting with stomps and claps. TestBash / MoTaCon 2025 Day 2 99-second-t...
This was done for TestBash 2024 99-second-talks. Since day 1 was AI-themed, I immediately thought of Shakespeare and speeches / soliloquies in his plays. I had AI write one and did one myself. Whic...
Published in September 2022, this was written as a 99-second talk. Posting it makes me think I should do another for MoTaCon. We will see.Â
The Meaning of TestBash
T is for us testers, who tra...
The Ministry of Testingâs Test.Bash() event on the 28th of October 2021 was a brilliant event, as was to be expected. Despite not being originally scheduled, after a little nudge from yours truly, ...
I rarely write âseriousâ poetry, but this has evolved over the year, and Iâm happy with where it ended. I started around May or June and first published it in December 2020.Â
It was the best o...
This poem was inspired by the Ministry of Testingâs June 2020 tweet asking, "Who tests the tests?"If testers testâŚÂ Then what tests the tester's tests? Who tests the test that testers writ...
I didn't realise how many of these I did in 2019! A bit rushed but less shaky. This poem was performed at Test.Bash() Manchester at their 99-second talks. Go to 9:20 to hear me perform it. Th...
This poem was performed by me at TestBash Manchester 2019 as a 99-second talk and was inspired by Tony Walshâs Take This Pen. If you want to hear a real poet, please use the link. It is beautiful. ...
From my TestBash Essentials talk on the Periodic Table of Testing, I was very brave and performed a testing parody of Queen's iconic We Will Rock You. Memorable for several things. I changed the ly...
Written in 2018, first performed live at TestBash Brighton 2019 as a 99-second talk. Go to 2:41 to see my shaky performance. It was literally the first time reading my poetry to a crowd since being...
