Sessions
Madhuri Mittal shares how a career pause and motherhood reshaped her into a more resilient, empathetic, and adaptable tester.
Rosie Sherry and Generalist World's Ece Kurtaraner talk small-scale events, lifetime membership models, and how they're each using Claude to cut community admin busywork.
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A panel discussion exploring how AI gains in silos can break feedback loops, shift bottlenecks downstream, and make quality harder to manage at scale.
A community-led episode on job hunting, scaling quality engineering, authentic career growth, AI adoption, gaming, and the value of staying connected when the industry feels noisy or uncertain.
Learn how software engineering is shifting from basic prompt engineering to autonomous AI agents and intent-based workflows.
A panel discussion exploring how AI is really affecting engineering teams today, from tool adoption and team confidence to testing, leadership, and the risk of over-relying on automation.
A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.
How do we know AI is doing a good enough job?
Watch Virtualize Keep Testing Moving
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Manage your entire QA lifecycle in one place. Sync Jira, automate scripts, and use AI to accelerate your testing.
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Talks
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Learn how test coverage is a necessary condition for shipping AI, but not a sufficient condition for trusting it.
RiskStorming AI is a strategy tool that helps your team to not only identify high value risks, but also set up a plan on how to deal with them.
Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
After watching this talk, you’ll be able to write smarter and more comprehensive tests in Java using Property-based Testing - and catch bugs you didn’t even know existed at a fraction of the effort
Leading with AI
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A panel discussion exploring how AI is really affecting engineering teams today, from tool adoption and team confidence to testing, leadership, and the risk of over-relying on automation.
James Pearce shares a practical framework for testing AI products by making them more verifiable, measuring risk clearly, and learning safely from production.
Preeti Gupta explains how teams can adopt AI in test automation while keeping human judgement, ownership, and quality at the centre.
Nick Pykett argues that AI is most useful in testing when it works within structured, step-based frameworks that preserve human control.
Chapters
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Madhuri Mittal shares how a career pause and motherhood reshaped her into a more resilient, empathetic, and adaptable tester.
A panel discussion exploring how AI gains in silos can break feedback loops, shift bottlenecks downstream, and make quality harder to manage at scale.
Explore how risk can guide smarter testing decisions.
Learn what produces usable tests and confident-looking garbage, and where the failure modes hide.
Masterclasses
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Stop treating quality as a final gate and start using these practical, field-tested rituals to bake reliability into your product from the very first idea.
See where AI genuinely helps, where it doesn’t, and how testers can stay firmly in control
Shipping fast shouldn't mean shipping blind.
Identify, test and improve AI guardrails through a structured, scenario-based framework that addresses common implementation failures and attack patterns.
This Week in Quality
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A community-led episode on job hunting, scaling quality engineering, authentic career growth, AI adoption, gaming, and the value of staying connected when the industry feels noisy or uncertain.
A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.
A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.
A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.
Into The MoTaverse
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Stephen Platten, The Stoic Tester, joins Rosie to unpack how Stoicism, critical thinking, and spotting logical fallacies help testers navigate AI slop and governance gaps.
Principal Developer Advocate Adriana Vilela joins Rosie Sherry to explore tech careers, observability, OpenTelemetry, AI slop in open source, and why quality is still a very human job.
Principal engineer Abby Bangser explains how platform engineering shifts quality feedback into the infrastructure layer. And why that's a massive opportunity for quality engineers.
Adam Davis explains why observability, not prompt engineering, is the real challenge in AI-assisted projects, using his phone-display art project Pixelmesh as a live test bed.
MoTaCon / TestBash
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Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
Map your skills, set learning goals, and grow as a testing generalist using the Periodic Table of Testing.
Explore how GenAI is changing quality by increasing complexity and uncertainty, making visible confidence more critical than ever.
Learn how to maintain quality when working under strict technical and operational constraints.
Roundtables, AMAs and Discussions (RAD)
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How do we know AI is doing a good enough job?
Same objectives, different tools!
Reflect on how burnout affects belonging at work and in the community, and how people can find their way back without starting over.
Dive into the world of advanced automation with Playwright
Leading with Quality
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Evolve from executor to orchestrator by integrating AI and holistic product insights to accelerate quality in high-stakes engineering environments.
Master the art of quality coaching by learning how to facilitate activation sessions that empower developers to own automation and identify wobbly code
Discover how slowing down for alignment, learning, and shared knowledge enables faster and safer AI-driven testing
Explore ways to use imagination to move past bottlenecks and grow new quality leaders
The Testing Planet
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Watch the season finale episode of The Testing Planet News
Join Kat and Callum to discover what's working, examples and traps in QC
This debate explored the role of quality coaching, how it differs from quality engineering and where it is most effective
What happens when a team struggles with the motivation to improve quality?