Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125 image
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Hear honest job-search and career-change stories, pick up confidence-boosting advice from the community, and enjoy the wonderfully weird side-threads that make the MoTaverse feel like home.
Rainbow vomits and AI Guardrails - Ep 124 image
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Cut through the AI hype, swap real guardrail stories, and laugh at the rainbow-vomit moments along the way.
The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123 image
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Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
New chapter for chapters: Why in-person community events still matter - Ep 122 image
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Reconnect with the MoTaverse through chapters, celebrate what’s changed while Deanna was away, and learn how local events help you grow your network and your craft.
Quality narratives and the circles of consequence - Ep 121 image
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Set meaningful goals, communicate quality through risks and real-world consequences, and turn small wins like building a quality narrative into career growth.
Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120 image
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See why sharing small things often is one of the most effective ways to learn and grow in your career
Goals that inspire a quality community - Ep 119 image
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Discover how testers are using public goals, badges and community support to grow their skills, gain confidence and make progress in 2026
What is the AI–quality–human loop? - Ep 118 image
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Explore how testers are blending AI with human judgment to improve exploratory testing, sharpen risk thinking, and stay accountable for quality in 2026.
What is TYiQ? Wrong answers only – Ep 117 (End-of-year special) image
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Join the community for a playful look back at the year in quality, with quizzes, stats, and wrong answers only
Zen and the art of quality maintenance - Ep 116 image
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Explore why questioning systems and trusting your judgement still matter in quality engineering and testing.
Quality Coaching: Fizzy minds and quality problems - Ep 115 image
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Discover how Quality Coaching approaches help teams surface, understand and solve their quality problems
The mobile testing paradox - Ep 114 image
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Discover why mobile testing is both simpler and more complex than web testing
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