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The Testing Planet — Issue 12

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The Testing Planet — Issue 11

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AI and Playwright MCP for web testing

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The Twelve Days of testing

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Meet the Team behind Xray

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Achieving Quality And Speed: Tips For QA Leaders In Delivering Exceptional Products

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One Tab To Rule Them All: The Developer Tools Network Tab

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How do we grow the next generation of Quality Engineers in the current market?

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A Spectrum of Difference: Creating EPIC Software Testers - Paul Seaman & Lee Hawkins

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MoTaCon (previously TestBash) and all in-person events are now part of Professional Membership

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AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure

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Adding software testers successfully to any product team: Experiences, struggles, and tips

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How to get the most out of your MoT profile: Top tips for maximising value

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Testing AI-coded applications: Practical tips for software testers

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Low-code test automation tools: First impressions and recommendations for beginners

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Wide open spaces: A thought worker's guide to asking good questions

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One team, one goal: The reality of introducing a unified testing strategy

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When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them)

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Shifting software testing left with operational definitions

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6 leadership mistakes that made me a better leader

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75+ Testing Practice Websites to Master Software QA in 2025

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Agile hardware testing: Enabling shift-left with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing

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I think, therefore I test: the importance of thinking for testers

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Software testers unite: Let's build a great tool and community for combinatorial testing!

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Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA Analyst model

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Making registration easy: Understanding the complexities of online forms

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Writing custom Cypress plug-ins that solve common software testing problems

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Moving fast and breaking things? Build reliable software from day one instead

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Quality is a commercial choice: The case for pragmatism

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The Community's Guide to Quality Narratives

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Using Narratives to Sharpen Testing Skills

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The Testing Planet 🪐 at ifm 🇮🇳

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Suddenly, a wild tester appeared! A developer’s guide to caring for software testers

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We Shouldn’t Be So Obsessed With Our Industry Terminology

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2.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate

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Leia - Guardian Of the MoTaverse

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The gorgeous Roxy: Guardian of the MoTaverse

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Lesson 11 of Everyday security testing: A practical guide to getting started

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MoTographer goes to London

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Beyond tasks list. Rethinking the role definition in the organisation

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Bastian facilitates Risk Storming Workshop

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Stranger things happen in the MoTaverse

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User Error

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From self-doubt to growth: My unusual journey into software testing

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Why speed matters

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Risks from Human Factors in Highly Automated Systems - Andrew Brown

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Karishma and Rosie

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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts

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Fizzy Minds and Quality Problems

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The High Performing Teams (HPT) Framework

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Stop Building Test Automation Teams

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Lessons for software testers from three great Western philosophers

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A coffee in the Air Fryer, you can do it, but should you?

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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 53

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Exploring test leadership in a consultancy environment

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