Moments
I watched a program, and someone said, 'think outside the box'. It is a common saying, and I'm willing to make an assumption that lots of...
I'm the kind of tester who is curious about any and every button. What do they do,? What happens when I press it? What happens when I pre...
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On the train home after speaking at Birmingham DevOps last night, I’ve been thinking about why I’ve started to love getting back into pub...
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I've created a basic visual for my mindsets model, which will be part of my book, if I ever get it done. I'm after some initial feedback ...
Inspired by this post in the Engineering Management Chapter Slack channel, we're writing a book of our own! The EM Chapter is trying to p...
It is bug-congrats me as I'm absolutely flabbergasted that not only have I passed four thousand stars, I caught it on 4004 (lots of stars...
I was a bit stunned to find no definition of AI in the glossary. We have AI deception, AI evals, AI test agent, AI testing, AI vampire, b...
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Ask Me Anything
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Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Simon Tomes asked "While the recipe instructions and ingre...
Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Gary Hawkes asked "How do the teams responsibilities in a ...
Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.I believe open source offers some of the best learning oppor...
Inspired by my manager who explained I 'monkey-barred' to a new job (before I was a tester I was a baker) and couldn't really transfer a ...
Chapters
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Grateful for the wonderful artwork for the Leeds Chapter of MoT
Amazing session by Adam Davis - A session not to be missed where not only the audience but also their phones were engaged. Colourful phon...
This is what happens when every camera is ready to click pictures. Some fun clicks at MoT London with Parveen and Nat where Parveen is tr...
Recorded insights with Simon on engineering management and AI. It will be published soon, so watch this space. If this is somet...
MoTaCon
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We're thrilled to have WonderProxy once again on board as a Gold Partner for MoTaCon 2026! If you haven't yet, you'll be able to meet IRL...
Comparing resources whilst designing our Motacon Engineering Management workshop
Can MoTaCon be part of the MoTaverse Festival? 🤔We currently have the following satellite events happening during MoTaCon week: 28 S...
It takes a village to make a conference happen. And the MoTaverse village is one that more people need to experience. Help us to make MoT...
Call for Insights
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On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A f...
2026 career highlight: Sharing the MoTaverse homepage with Lisa Crispin! 🤩2009 me would have no idea that he'd record a conversation with...
You've just said goodbye to one of your favourite testing legends off the back of wonderful and insightful Call for Insights. You've...
Any of my former coworkers can confirm that I can talk about QA for hours at work, where I'm comfortable; where I know the audience. ...
MoTivation
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Inspired by this post in the Engineering Management Chapter Slack channel, we're writing a book of our own! The EM Chapter is trying to p...
It is bug-congrats me as I'm absolutely flabbergasted that not only have I passed four thousand stars, I caught it on 4004 (lots of stars...
A moment of speaking for the first time at OSSA moment of hosting the first MOT MasterclassA moment of uploading my first YouTube videoA ...
Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.I believe open source offers some of the best learning oppor...
Guardians of the MoTaverse
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Luna - our white Lion from Sirius, protector of the realm.Munja (eng. Flash) - our Black Lightning, a shadow hunter.
Link was chosen by the Goddesses of Quality Assurance to guard the realm from the Great Calamity (otherwise known as "Deadlines"). H...
After the loss our last Guardian Cooper, we had a break as a point of respect and reflection on such a wonderful and dare I say unique do...
Meet Percy. We are looking after him for the day.
Memes
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Recently my team has taken on the arduous task of migrating one of our oldest applciations from weblogic to containers. A task that is pr...
Writing Automation has made me realise after 10 plus years I am actually a good tester.I am however possibly the worst developer known to...
It's nice when people notice!
We do try to be subtle...(Sometimes it actually wasn't in dev yet!)
