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Stuart Thomas - The Quality Duck
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Engineering Leader | Quality Evangelist | Author of TheQualityDuck.co.uk
My sister dog sat at my house this weekend. I came home to this…
December 1, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Welcome all my recent new followers, and thank you @ministryoftesting.com for including me on your starter pack.

If you aren’t already familiar with my blog, go check it out www.thequalityduck.co.uk I write posts about anything and everything connected to software and leadership.
The Quality Duck - Stuart Thomas - Engineering Manager
Stuart Thomas - Engineering Leadership with a side of Quality Evangelism - Passionate about helping others be the best version of themselves.
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November 1, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Risk based prioritisation is an essential part of managing workload in software testing. Learn how to use a Risk vs Effort matrix to support prioritisation.
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Risk vs Effort: How to prioritise based on Risk
Risk based prioritisation is an essential part of managing workload in software testing. Learn how to use a Risk vs Effort matrix to support prioritisation.
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October 24, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Ministry of Testing have put together an awesome list of amazing people! Go give them all a follow!
We created a starter pack for software testing and quality people.

Drop a comment to be added in.

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October 24, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Final post (for now) in my series of posts looking at Testing AI. This post focusses on LangSmith, an LLM observability tool from LangChain

Thanks again to @ministryoftesting.com for the inspiration to learn more about AI and LLMs its been really enjoyable.

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Testing AI – How to do Observability of Your LLM right
In this final post of my Testing AI series I take a look at LangSmith. A powerful observability and monitoring tool for AI and Large Language Models.
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April 18, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Time for my third installment on Testing AI. In this post I look at using TruLens.

TruLens a specialist LLM tool that provides a framework to help objectively measure the quality and effectiveness of LLM-based applications using feedback functions.

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April 11, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Picard management tip: In a strange new environment, be wary of making changes until you understand more about what's going on.
April 8, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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A few weeks back I was annoyed on linkedin. Again.
Another year (month..) - another manel.

Me, Emna Ayadi and theywrestletest.bsky.social decided to blog about it.

Here’s my part: testing.pejgan.se/diversity-in...
Diversity in Tech Conferences – QuestionAble by Pejgan
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April 9, 2024 at 2:19 PM
The second post in my series about testing AI is now live. In this post I look at using Playwright to automate prompt testing.
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April 4, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Inspired by the @ministryoftesting.com 30 days of AI in testing, I have just published my first post in a series around Testing AI. This post covers how to run an LLM locally www.thequalityduck.co.uk/testing-ai-h...
March 27, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Put together some draft blog posts today. Realised I now have 13 posts in various state of draft 😬 really should get around to finishing writing some of them.
March 26, 2024 at 9:54 PM
I saw a YouTube video about esoteric programming languages recently. It sent me down a deep hole of reading about and playing around with a few, so I wrote a blog about writing hello world in some of my favourites. www.thequalityduck.co.uk/hello-world-...
Hello, World! The best of Esoteric Languages
Esoteric languages are mind boggling and a lot of fun, even just writing Hello World! Come check out my 5 favourites.
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February 17, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Well now it’s open, it’s about time I checked this place out. Looking forward to building a network amid excellent test, quality, and engineering folk.
February 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM