🚀 MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate is here! Early bird ends 22nd December 2024!

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The comb shaped tester, does it make them a specialist or generalist?

The testing community is multi-talented

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Bugged out: MoT Weekly – Issue 497

Newsletter Issue

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MoT Monthly - December 2024

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Stoicism and testing, ancient wisdom meets modern techniques

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Burnout: A personal experience report

Are software testers responsible for continuous quality?

Software Testing Essentials Certification (STEC), a true alternative to ISTQB

Cosmic Conversation: A holistic view of continuous quality

Testing Planet Session

Cosmic Discussion: The limitations of shift-left and existing practices

Testing Planet Session

Upcoming Events

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TestBash Brighton 2025

Wed, 1 Oct 2025

On the 1st & 2nd of October, 2025 we'll be back to Brighton for another TestBash: the largest software testing conference in the UK

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Vancouver Meetup

Thu, 19 Dec

Enhancing Test Automation with Playwright and AI with Christine Pinto

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Episode Ten: Exploring Quality Coaching

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Step into the role of a quality coach!

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This Year in Testing

Fri, 13 Dec

Debrief the year in testing

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Episode Eight: Exploring Quality Engineering

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

Land on the quality engineering planet!

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Episode Nine: Exploring Systems Thinking

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Expand your perspective with systems thinking!

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London Meetup

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

The first-ever London Ministry of Testing Meetup

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Auckland Meetup

Tue, 10 Dec

Diary of a reluctant recruiter: your value as a tester

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Manchester Meetup

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

The power of collaboration in cross-functional teams!

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Tool of The Week : Allure Report

Simple. Fun. Language and Framework agnostic. Designed to create fancy and clear testing reports in minutes. Loved by the community, developed by Qameta Software & Open-source contributors.

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Partner with MoT Today!

Reach the most active and respected software testing community

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RiskStorming

An educational tool to explore Risk Analysis and Quality Strategy building with the whole team.

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Contribute to TestBash Brighton 2025

Submit your ideas today or before the 22 December 2024

Testing Trends

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The comb shaped tester, does it make them a specialist or generalist?

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Are software testers responsible for continuous quality?

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What defines a junior software tester?

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Do you delete tests as part of your testing strategy?

TestBash Sessions

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Enhancing Test Automation with Playwright and AI: A Journey of Innovation image

Enhancing Test Automation with Playwright and AI: A Journey of Innovation

Responsible AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Testers image

Responsible AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Testers

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Embracing Empathy: A Framework for Modern Test Leadership

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Quality Statements for LLMs: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Club Topics

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How do you know if you’re adding value as an individual or as a team?

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You’ve been set the task of learning about Continuous Quality

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Are software testers responsible for continuous quality?

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Do you want to learn more about Continuous Quality?

On Demand Courses

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Prompting for Testers

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Improving Your Testing Through Operability

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Cognitive Biases In Software Testing

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A Software Tester’s Guide To Chrome Devtools

Certifications

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MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate

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MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation

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MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation

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MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation

Memories

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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 8

Simon Tomes

Can you find Bug and their buddy, Cosmo? (Cosmo's a duck!).

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TestBash Brighton 2019 - My First TestBash

Sarah Kitchener

Which was your first TestBash? My first TestBash was in Brighton in 2019 after joining MoT in 2018.

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14th meetup in Athens

Petros Plakogiannis

The 14th Ministry of Testing Athens meetup in the Hellenic American Union was awesome! 300 people. -28/11/2024 Simon Stewart talked abou...

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An obligatory Lego Box for Software Testing Essentials Certification (STEC)

Rosie Sherry

I have a thing for creating Lego Boxes for the things MoT do. Here's one for our Software Testing Essentials Certification. 😅 Is creat...

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Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC) is here!

Rosie Sherry

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Simon Tomes

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When you can't quite commit to accepting and checking the rebrand

Simon Tomes

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Integration test "passed"

Peet Michielsen