The Testing Planet 🪐 at ifm 🇮🇳

Sometimes you drop something on your team’s desk and expect a polite nod.

Then there are moments like this where you bring in The Testing Planet and the entire ifm engineering testing team goes a cheat code mode.

This latest edition is packed. Not “advertisement packed.”

But actually packed with games, puzzles, spot-the-difference, thoughtful articles, links to tools I wish existed years ago, and the Ministry of Testing #MoTaverse, which is basically a beautiful reminder that learning can be playful and deeply technical at the same time.

We read it, and it resonated.
Not because it’s trendy or flashy.
But because it mirrors how we actually test: explore the edges, poke the unknowns, break things on purpose, fix things with intent, repeat until better.

Huge thanks to the Ministry of Testing for sending me extra copies.

Handing them out to the team was like handing out curiosity shots.

Everyone dove right in, literally. The photos say it all: members reading, discussing, solving puzzles, pointing at pages saying, “Hey, you need to see this.”

It’s fun watching a team level up using something that feels both wonderfully old-school (a newspaper!) and totally modern in spirit.

Testing isn’t just a job; it’s a craft.
And right now, The Testing Planet is one of the best mirrors we’ve got for that craft.

Rahul Parwal