MoT Monthly - June 2025 | Ministry of Testing

👋 Welcome to June’s issue of MoT Monthly.

Once a month we share a round-up of how the MoTaverse has expanded. Let’s go! 🚀

🆙 Product and Community updates

Our small team has been working hard to ship continuously. Here’s what we’ve been working on:

We recently launched “following” on the MoTaverse. Learn how to follow MoT Profiles. This is the foundation for many more exciting features.
New certificate incoming: MoT's Software Quality Engineering Certificate. Explore SQEC and snag the early bird discount.
We’ve made enhancements to the community star feature so it’s been easier for us to administer stars for all the brilliant things the community has been up to. You can now see your star count on your public MoT Profile and view all the community stars.
Memories got a boost. You can now post video and micro-blogging style posts. Got something to share with the community, post a memory and also see it on your profile page. Here's a good example from Lisa Crispin.
It’s now possible to like a piece of content on MoT. Liking something notifies the contributor and sends a message that you’re grateful for their contribution. What might you like today?
Professional members can now mark their profile as “Open to review CVs/Resumes” and “Open to meet at TestBash 2025”. Available in My MoT.
We've also set up a dedicated collection for those going to TestBash. View the instructions in the collection to get involved. Help us get to – at least – 99 selfies. 🤩

🗓️ Events

Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.

This Week in Testing Fri 13 Jun 🎙️
Tunis Meetup Sat 14 Jun 🇹🇳
Milan Meetup Mon 16 Jun 🇮🇹
Barcelona Meetup Tue 17 Jun 🇪🇸
Software Testing Live Wed 18 Jun 🔎
Valencia Meetup Thu 19 Jun 🇪🇸
This Week in Testing Fri 20 Jun 🎙️
Porto Meetup Wed 25 Jun 🇵🇹
Athens Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇷
London Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇧
Cork Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇮🇪
Cincinnati Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇺🇸
Accelerating Test Design: From Chaotic Requirements to Ready-to-Run Test Assets Fri 27 Jun 🖥️
Plymouth Meetup Wed 9 Jul 🇬🇧
Newcastle Meetup Tue 15 Jul 🇬🇧
Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀

Get the details on all our upcoming community-led meetups. All recorded events are added to the Ministry of Testing catalogue. Professional members have access to the entire catalogue of learning material. 🤩

⛳️ Courses

API mocking made easy. External services and dependencies can be slow, flaky or unfinished, which makes UI/E2E tests brittle. A realistic mock keeps your feedback loop fast and lets you hit edge-cases on demand. In short, mocks can give you better coverage, quicker pipelines, and fewer surprises. José Carrera walks you from the very first “Why bother mocking?” conversation to running Mockoon servers in CI, all without writing code.

A tester's role in continuous quality. It has been widely accepted within software development that everyone has a role in contributing to product quality. But how do we do that consistently and continuously, and what is our role in doing that? This course is designed to bring you what you need to know in the quickest possible timeframe.

Plus, many more courses available to all professional members 🗄️

🥞 Collections

🎓 Certifications

Announcing SQEC! MoT's Software Quality Engineering Certificate. We've just published the outline for our next MoT Certification: Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC). For the past few months, we've been doing deep research into all things Quality Engineering. This has meant exploring things like continuous quality, systems thinking, quality coaching and the different models used by practising and leading experts. Explore SQEC and snag the early bird discount.

The Software Testing Essentials Certification (STEC): The modern, essential, foundational testing education, co-created with 57 practising experts. The people who share their knowledge in this certificate are a joy to learn from. 🤩

🖼️ Memes and memories

A composite image featuring several polaroid-style photos against a dark purple background with a grey, cratered surface (resembling the moon) in the bottom right corner. From top right to bottom left, the polaroids show: A close-up of a koala eating a leaf, with text that reads "THE MOMENT WHEN YOU REALIZE". A polaroid partially obscured, showing a white background with a small portion of a cat and green text that says "AI AGENTS". Above it, text reads "WHY IS THIS DOING EVERYTHING". A photo of four adult women smiling at the camera, their heads closely grouped. A full-length photo of four adults posing outdoors on a paved area with trees in the background. They are casually dressed, with one person in the background appearing to be in a uniform.

Photo memories and memes create history and stories.

We now support video uploads and micro-blogging style posting. ⭐️

Help expand the MoTaverse. Add one and like one today.

🎓 Articles, Testing Trends and Talks

A letter to the hiring manager of software testers: 10 years later by Gabbi Trotter
Empathy lessons for software testers: Preparing for the European Accessibility Act by Michael Kennedy
Quality products need good human systems by Rosie Sherry
Lessons learned in test-driven development: Software tester edition by Arun Vishwanathan
Prompt injections: A new opportunity for testers by Rahul Parwal
Four reasons to stop testing: Finding the right balance in software quality by Stefan Dirnstorfer
How to get unstuck: A guide for testers or anyone else who feels stumped by Ady Stokes
12 things we learned when we questioned the existence of test case management by Rosie Sherry
Software Testing Careers: The Roadmap by Oleksandr Romanov for MoT Tunis
The Augmented Tester: How AI is Transforming the Tester's Profession by Tarek Temimi (Ar)

Express yourself through writing. Share your thoughts, ideas and stories with the community via an MoT article. Share an idea for an article. 📝

View the talks database and all The Testing Planet sessions.

🔥 Hot topics

Join the conversation on The Club, our dedicated forum for all testing, QA and Quality Engineering professionals.

📚 Glossary

Software testing glossary definitions that you can add to. Expand the MoTaverse, Professional members can add definitions. ✍️

Discover 185 glossary terms and 295 definitions.

🚀 Contribute

Expand the MoTaverse! 50+ ways to earn a community star badge
Share your stories and support everyone's career growth. Submit an idea today
View and follow this month's community stars. 🤩

🤝 Let's connect

We're committed to connecting testers, quality engineers and QAs no matter what challenges the world brings us. Here are the safe and inspiring spaces we provide and curate for the software testing, QA and quality engineering people: MoT Slack, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, The Club, TikTok and Mastodon.

🏆 Leading with Quality

We're building space for quality leaders, an intentional community investment to explore and expand the practice of leading with quality. 🚀

Rosie Sherry, MoT CEO and Founder, is actively recording video chats with people who are leading with quality. Message me or Rosie on the MoT Slack if you’re keen to get involved.

⭐️ Professional membership

A Ministry of Testing Professional Membership is available to advance software testing and quality engineering. Download a handy Professional Membership Overview PDF to share with your manager or someone you know who would benefit from signing up today.

♾️ Simplicity with Unlimited Membership

A lot is going on at Ministry of Testing, and our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to access everything we do. We’ve seen how much of a stumbling block getting sign-off for budgets can be. To address this we’ve packaged everything up into one annual, much-reduced price and Unlimited membership. What do we mean by ‘everything’?

Everything included in your professional membership plus
Attend any TestBash and Leading with Quality event (if in a leadership role)
Get certified with any of our 3 Test Automation Certification Courses
Be the first to access and get certified with our Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Any certification, event or TestBash we launch in the future.

That’s over £3,000 in value for just £1,499 (+ tax) a year. Go Unlimited. ♾️

👋 That’s all for now. Have a good month and we’ll see you around the MoTaverse.

Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing