Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoT Weekly host.
📸 Today's featured photo comes from Richard Adams and MoT Edinburgh.
🥇 80% of of quality professionals identify as Quality Engineers. Level up your career.
Missed the live reveal?
Catch the on-demand session with gaming legend John Romero and see how we’re redefining software quality at AI speed.
🚀 The MoTaverse has been shipping
👩🏽🏫 Coaching with code: using AI to learn how to automate tests — Megan Ozanne
Leverage AI as a personalised "code coach" to bridge the gap between manual testing and automation by translating plain English into executable scripts and providing line-by-line logic explanations.
🎙️Solo but not alone: Navigating life as a lone quality engineer - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 9
An exploration of why self-advocacy and community are the ultimate survival tools for solo quality professionals.
🤙 It depends - Ask MoTaverse Anything - Ep 128 — TWiQ
Explore the new Aks MoTaverse Anything format, unpack “quality beyond correctness”, and pick up practical ideas for communicating impact, not just checking boxes.
📺 Agentic QE: From AI Assistant to AI Workforce
AI is accelerating development at a pace never seen before. Testers face a choice: become the bottleneck, or evolve how they work.
This masterclass introduces Agentic Quality Engineering — a paradigm shift from using AI as a coding assistant to directing AI agents as an intelligent workforce.
👉 Ask MoTaverse Anything's are here! 👈
There’s a new AMA in town, and we’d love you to take part.
An Ask Me Anything (AMA) is a simple way to put yourself out there on a topic you care about. You pick the topic, invite questions, and do your best to answer them.
AMA about:
- Leadership
- Podcasting
- Community
- Being Famous
- System Testing
- Full Snack Testing
- Context Engineering
- Accessibility Testing
- Working as a Lone Tester
- Quality Beyond Correctness
- Crafting CVs for the UK Job Market
- Epistemology - the practice of testing
- How non-technical teams can contribute to quality: I'm a Marketing PM at an AI test automation company.
💸 The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
Analyse the risks of stagnant pull requests and adopt a Quality Engineering mindset to reduce technical debt and accelerate value delivery through developer-led testing and faster merge cycles.
How should we report on quality?
🌟 Why I change my in-house job title to match the testing I’m doing
One small habit I’ve developed is updating my in-house job title to reflect the kind of testing I’m focused on at that moment.
“AI likes to get its sticky tentacles into all your systems”
💀 Dead Internet Theory and the rise of Intranets?
Recently Rosie covered the Digg shut down. Digg placed the blame on the prevalence of AI Agents flooding the internet with an endless stream of derivative content while at the same time boosting that content on various platforms. That combination makes it difficult for our old content curation algorithms to perform well, as most relied on basic view count or votes that can be easily faked by AI Agents.
WonderProxy helps find bugs from around the world
With servers in >250 cities around the world, check your site for localization problems, broken GDPR banners, etc.
📆 All upcoming events
Virtual Opportunities:
- Don’t automate everything, review everything — Software Testing Live 🎉
- Evals in practice for an AI coding agent
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage.
In person:
- MoTaCon 2026: 153 people already registered. Let's go!
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. 95% booked.
- Chapter events: Newcastle. Cincinnati. San Francisco. Leeds. Netherlands. Brighton.
Partner events:
- Building Realistic Service Dependencies With Your LLM Client
- Choosing AI-Powered API Testing Tools: What Capabilities Really Matter
- How to Cut API Testing Time - live demo and Q&A
- Introducing TestRail 10: Confident Coverage and Traceability with Jira Issue Connect
- Too Many Tests, Too Little Time: Smarter Ways to Tackle Manual Regression Testing
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