Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
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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Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
7.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
earned:
6.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
earned:
6.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
earned:
6.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
earned:
5.7.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Contributions
First written in 2023, but all the points are valid, and the introduction of AI seems to have made it worse. TL;DR
Digital accessibility refers to designing and developing websites and digital tool...
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.
The Meaning of TestBash
T is for us testers, who tra...
The Ministry of Testing’s 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 ‘serious’ poetry, but this has evolved over the year, and I’m happy with where it ended. I started around May or June and first published it in December 2020.
It was the best o...
