Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
🖖 MoTaCon is coming. 212 people have already registered, it’s one click registration with Professional Membership.
🚌 Join us in London this June: MoT London and Leading With AI, spaces are going quickly.
🏆 Bug congrats to Niki Muttaluri, for becoming SQEC qualified!
🔥 Happening this week: MoT Newcastle, Teskube AI: The Future of Testing is Here, This Week in Quality.
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AI agent configuration needs better boundaries — Cameron Browne
How much does AI agent configuration matter?
How I measure quality without looking at bug counts — Sanjeev Kumar
Redefine software quality by replacing bug counts with metrics that track rework rates, the survival of assumptions in production, and the speed of recovery from system friction.
Google your name — Rosie Sherry
The modern world means your name is going to get searched when people meet you, when employers review your CV and when you apply for speaking opportunities.
Layoffs, LinkedIn, and long games. Tristan Lombard on why now might be the best time to work for yourself.
Quality thinking and the role of epistemology - Ep 135 — TWiQ
An exploration of how epistemology underpins quality thinking, helping quality people examine what they know, how they know it, and how that shapes their quality choices.
Ship with confidence: Agentic AI-Driven Quality with Rovo Dev and Xray
Shipping fast shouldn't mean shipping blind. Sérgio Freire covers how to weave quality into every step of an agentic development workflow, using Rovo Dev to implement features and Xray's test management capabilities to ensure they're properly validated and traced back to your Jira work items.
Tests passed yet the startup failed — Melissa Fisher
“I got to the end and I was thinking, have I just wasted a year and a half of my life working on something that ultimately hasn't got into production?”
Quality people are truth tellers — Judy Mosley and Jessica Mosley
Quality engineering is one of the most data-rich, influential roles in any organisation, and one of the most underestimated.
What LLMs know about you? Try it with the prompt: Write my unhinged bio in 200 words. totally bonkers. — Dragan Spiridonov
Inspired by a LinkedIn post from Reuven Cohen, I decided to test how different models I use daily would write my unhinged bio in 200 words. totally bonkers.
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- AI-driven testing in practice: from requirements to reliable automation - Tues 26 May
- The product-led approach to Quality: What I learnt working side-by-side with testers and engineers - Thurs 11th of June
- Designing self‑explaining test automation for fast root‑cause diagnosis - Tues 23 June
- Software Testing Live: Risky Business — June 25th
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leading with AI - The London Edition — Fri Jun 19th 🌟
- MoTaCon 2026: 212 people already registered. Let's go!
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
- Chapter events: Newcastle, Edinburgh, Porto, Netherlands, Leeds, Athens, London, Leeds, Brighton.
Partner events:
- API Testing in the AI Era — SmartBear
- Choosing AI-Powered API Testing Tools: What Capabilities Really Matter — Parasoft
- Testkub AI: The Future of Testing is Here — testkube
- Escaping Regression Slowdowns in Long-Lived Software — Parasoft
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