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What's been happening in the testing, QA, dev and quality engineering MoTaverse?
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
MoTaverse
It's so good to see so many new photos in the MoT London Meetup—Software Testing and Quality Engineer Meetup collection. Smiles and learning all around. And here's a celebration of last week's Leeds Testing Atelier XII. 📸
Need a handy summary of what's been happening in the MoTaverse? Read: MoT Monthly - May 2025. 🚀
Say hi on this quarter's introductions thread and earn a community star. 👋
How would you define TestBash?
The MoTaverse expands with two more meetups: MoT Milan and MoT Plymouth, thanks to Aurélien Lair and Gulshan Blanton.
🥞 New collection: MoT Berlin Meetup — Software Testing and Quality Engineer Meetup.
🎧 Is vibe testing going to kill off test management? Ep 90. Listen in as testers around the world share insights on AI, test management, and leading with quality in this packed episode of This Week in Testing. Also available to subscribe to on your favourite podcast platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Ambasadoring at TestBash 2024.
How is your MoT Profile looking? asks Rahul.
Last week was a bumper week for community photo memories. So many! You can't help but smile when you look at them and read the attached stories.
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.
"If you get a chance to attend or speak at community events, go for it — the visibility and connections are worth it!" – Hemant.
So far in May, 94 community members have received at least one community star. That's a lot of expanding the MoTaverse. Thank you for all your contributions! 🤩
Career Growth
Discover how the recruitment landscape has changed over the years, for both testers and hiring managers. A letter to the hiring manager of software testers: 10 years later by Gabbi Trotter.
What struggles have you faced when job hunting or hiring for a testing role?
Conrad thinks there might be at least 5 million testers in the world. What about you, how many do you think there are?
“TestBash testing conference is the place that can transform your testing career. It did mine.” Source: LinkedIn.
📌 Quality Assurance Engineer, Cardiff, Wales. Downing.
"It doesn't have to be all this really serious transactional stuff. I want to leave an interview as an interviewer, full of energy!" Quality Talks Bitesize: Top 5 Tips For Interviewers with Chris Henderson and Stu Day.
Essentials
🎉 Another week, another Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC) module release: Module 13 – Navigating the bug backlog with confidence. In this module, you’ll dive deep into the complexities of managing a bug backlog, including how to assess and prioritise bug fixes. You’ll also discover how to navigate the software lifecycle with confidence by understanding the importance of retesting and regression testing.
How to Write Test Cases When You Hate Writing Test Cases by Cassandra H. Leung.
Doug Donohoe argues that good programmers always be refactoring.
Quality Software Starts Before Coding by Melissa Eaden.
What is non-performance testing and prompt injection?
What balance do you strike with the level of detail on a test case? asks Gulshan.
A Beginner’s Guide To Critical Thinking. Knowing how to begin critical thinking can seem daunting, Jit's guide can help.
🤩 57 leading professionals have co-created your next career enhancer. How many bugs did you spot?
Quality Engineering
Are we measuring the wrong things in scrum? asks Gary Hawkes.
How do you add quality outside of the “testing phase” of the SDLC?
What nitty gritty examples can you share that demonstrate the value of quality engineering?
Continuous Quality
A handy collection: The Community's Guide to Continuous Quality.
Sytems Thinking
Systems thinking with jigsaws.
Some people (including me) have, at one point or another, found themselves thinking like this.
The community shares different thoughts on how to add quality outside of the "testing phase" of the SDLC.
Quality Coaching
“In this post I’ll take a hypothetical testing scenario and then set out the thinking I’d take around it to support the organisation as a quality coach.” – Callum Akehurst-Ryan.
Calling ALL leaders for a one-day educational experience to help expand quality engineering and testing practices.
📍 Brighton - 30th Sep 2025
Leading with Quality
At its core, Organic Quality is built upon three key values: kindness, curiosity, and credibility. The Four Pillars of Organic Quality by Lauren Borodajko.
“One of the key things I did in my onboarding was speak to as many people as possible. This has been crucial in the success of turning things around — building up relationships with people that can help you.” – Melissa Fisher: Creating Focus in a Distracted World.
Four Ways Leaders Make Learning Stick by John Rutkiewicz.
How do you encourage curiosity in others? asks Olly.
Career progression in testing: the awesome power of influence by Callum.
Are trains a quality product? 🤔
"You don’t have to change the system to energize a person. Start by noticing, affirming, and needing someone today." Why Mattering Matters.
What do you want to know from leaders in testing and quality?
Not Your Average User by Emily O'Connor.
🥞 New collection: The Community's Guide to Individual Contributors as Leaders.
Tooling
🛠️ Tool of the week: QA Sphere
Testing without frustration: Low-Code Test Automation with TestBench and Robot Framework.
There is no single winner: Selenium AND Playwright by Marcus Merrell.
Audrey Enin describes overcoming bugs in testing infrastructure with Playwright.
AI Prompts for Playwright: Getting the Most Out of Your AI Assistants by Gary Parker.
Can you recommend tools for testing mobile number verification?
New to the software testing tools directory: MCP.so.
Automation
Komal Chowdhary shares how to make false positives and flaky tests reliable again.
Security
Cybersecurity Executive Order: Impact on Industries and Solutions.
Always interesting to learn how teams are set up: Building Trustworthy Software: Our Mission at Security, Privacy and Corporate Engineering.
Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning.
Accessibility
Testing emails? Creating accessible emails: step-by-step guide.
Glossary definition: WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).
Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome.
Usability
The Usability Scaling Law: Death of User Testing?
Architecture
Micro Frontends — The Story So Far.
AI
Microsoft commits to Google’s interoperability protocol for AI agents.
Glossary definition: MCP — Model Concept Protocol.
Why Leaders Resist AI and How to Build Confidence in AI Leadership by Lolly Daskal.
Ros Taylor ponders, what if we want AI to lie to us?
MCP and APIs Will Standardize The Agent Revolution by Postman.
How would you define ‘vibe testing’?
Irfan Mujagic describes Multi-Step Grading Rubrics with LLMs for Answer Evaluation.
What's been good and bad about using Selenium MCP? asks Bharat.
How do you see prompt injections in terms of risk?
Just for fun
Good news! AI’s not going to take all your jobs… 😅
It's Space Seagull in real life. Making Plans for TestBash.
The final social meetup after TestBash
🗓️ Events
Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.
- Newcastle Meetup Tue 20 May 🇬🇧
- Manila Meetup Tue 20 May 🇵🇭
- This Week in Testing Fri 23 May 🎙️
- Leeds Meetup Thu 29 May 🇬🇧
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 29 May 🇺🇸
- Ghana Meetup Sat 31 May 🇺🇸
- Software Testing Live Wed 18 Jun 🔎
- Athens Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇷
- London Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇧
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇺🇸
- Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
- Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀
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