👋 Welcome to March’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 continuously be shipping, here’s what we’ve been working on:
- Did you know? The MoTaverse is here to answer your questions you never knew needed answering!
- MoT Profiles appear in MoT search, why not give it a go?
- Add your interest to your MoT Profile: They even show up in search results. For example, you can see who is interested in Space Duck. 🦆
- MoT Glossary: We’ve been working hard on adding terms to our glossary and it has been a surprisingly enjoyable experience. The goal we have is to collect definitions from across the community. Professional Members can add definitions to existing terms, why not give it a go?
- These days we’re exploring how we describe who we are at Ministry of Testing and what we are trying to achieve for you. The MoTaverse is a bit of this and a bit of that.
🗓️ Join these events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
- This Week in Testing Fri 14 Mar 🎙️
- Accra Meetup Sat 15 Mar 🇬🇭
- Software Testing Live: Episode 02: Access All Areas Wed 19 Mar 🔎
- SeleniumConf & AppiumConf Valencia 2025 Wed 26 Mar 🇪🇸
- Episode Ten: Exploring Quality Coaching Thu 27 Mar 🪐
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 27 Mar 🇺🇸
- London Meetup Thu 3 Apr 🇬🇧
- Gloucestershire Meetup Thu 3 Apr 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🤩
All recorded events are added to the Ministry of Testing catalogue. Professional members have access to the entire catalogue of learning material. 🤩
🥞 Collections
- The Community's Guide to Requirements
- Exploring Quality Engineering - The Testing Planet - Episode 8
- Systems Thinking - What Is It?
- The Community's Guide to Continuous Quality
- The Community's Guide to Test Automation
- The Community's Guide to Quality Coaching
📊 Testing trends
- Testing Trends Weekly — Issue 4
- Hybrid, remote, or office? The changing work trends for software testers
- Is the AI bubble bursting?
- Testing Trends Weekly — Issue 5
- 80% of people like us identify as Quality Engineers
- Testing Trends Weekly — Issue 6
- Exploring the software testing career path towards Quality Engineering
- How is a Quality Engineer different from a Test Engineer?
- Is Quality Engineering an evolution of the software testing role?
🎓 Certifications
The MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC) gives junior testers confidence, community and connections. A true alternative to ISTQB, STEC is a modern introduction to the world of testing software. It features knowledge-filled lessons from trusted software testing industry experts.
🖼️ Memes and memories
Photo memories and memes create history and stories.
Help expand the MoTaverse. Add one today.
🎓 Articles
- 10 powerful tests with Chrome DevTools by Kasturi Rajamanikkam
- How to throw a bug bash: A tester's guide by Parveen Khan
- Seven years of community: Ministry of Testing Athens Meetup by Petros Plakogiannis
- When the tester's away… the team can test anyway! by Emily O'Connor
- What is software testing? by Ady Stokes
Express yourself through writing. Share your thoughts, ideas and stories with the community via an MoT article. Share an idea for an article. 📝
🎤 Talks
- How self SWOT analysis helped me in my career growth with Jayateerth Katti
- The power of collaboration in cross-functional software delivery teams with Gina Chelton and Sam Farndale
- Testing for Accessibility and the Euro Accessibility Act with Michael Kennedy
- Enhance your performance tests and more with process behaviour charts with Mike Harris
- How is Quality Engineering different from testing? with Stuart Thomas
- How are teams approaching Quality Engineering? with Stuart Thomas
- AI vs testers? Friend or foe? with Robbie Falck, Gomanthi Ramalingam, Gary Parker and Gek Yeo
- Making regression testing a breeze with AI with Animesh Pathak
- How not to flip the table using Selenium BiDi with Dobrin Visariev
- What is Systems Thinking? with Jenna Charlton
- Test data and ChatGPT - How to generate data using ChatGPT with Ranita Ganguly
- Why does Systems Thinking matter? with Irja Straus
- Exploring Quality Engineering - The Testing Planet News - Episode 08 with Simon Tomes, Philippa Jennings, Melissa Fisher and Matthew Whitaker
- The pitfalls and possibilities of Quality Engineering with Nataliia Burmei
- Cosmic discussion: quality engineering people with Jitesh Gosai, Alessandra Moreira, Steven Knopf and Carlos Kidman
- Cosmic conversation: Systems thinking models with Joep Schuurkes and Isabel Evans
- Works as Designed with Elisabeth Hendrickson
- How is Systems Thinking different from Critical Thinking with Hanisha Arora
- Cosmic discussion: the possibilities of Systems Thinking with Gwen Diagram, Karime Salomon, Nithin SS and Hibri Marzook.
Do you have a talk idea? Submit one today. If something doesn’t fit our current events schedule, we can record it with you and publish it on the MoT site.
🔥 Hot topics
Join the conversation on The Club, our dedicated forum for all testing, QA and Quality Engineering professionals.
- Do all engineering teams need testers?
- How many testing specialisms are there?
- How do you capture your week in testing?
- Been away for a while, how do you catch up?
- Does your company practice Quality Coaching?
- What white papers are you reading about LLMs?
- What small language shifts have made a difference?
- What do you think of exercises as part of a recruitment process?
- What mnemonic could you create to help people “Test like a tester”?
- What does your automated accessibility testing implementation look like?
- What’s the most niche domain knowledge you’ve gained from testing software?
📚 Glossary updates
Glossary definitions that you can add to. Expand the following and many more.
- Equivalence Partitioning
- Strong style pairing
- Systems Thinking
- Tacit requirement
- Quality Coaching
- Defect density
- Test condition
- Test design
- Testability
- TestBash
🎡 Continuous Call for Contributions
Expand the MoTaverse! Share your knowledge and support everyone's career growth. Short talks, long talks, articles, meetups, conversations, courses and more! Submit an idea today. 🚀
🤝 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.
🎁 Recommend the Scholarship Fund
Ministry of Testing gifted our first scholarship in 2013. Since then, we've committed to matching all funds raised and donated by the community. Anyone can apply for our scholarship fund, which can be used towards a Professional Membership, Certification, or TestBash Conference. Know someone who would benefit? Share the scholarship page and encourage them to apply.
♾️ 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
- 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.
