Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
For over a year now, we've been experimenting with the idea of photography and our very own MoTographer at our events. Two MoTaCons, several MoT London Chapters and LWAI, our photos we're building up. We needed a better way to store them and make them more easily accessible.
This week we put our MoTaCon 2026 photos live and it represents yet another shift for our platform. You wonder why it's worth taking note of it. There's nothing new with photos! I ask you to pause for a moment and to see this as Community as a Service.
Photos give you credibility, help you look amazing, they can be used for sharing online, and increasingly you can get your own professional profile shots taken. They are also a keepsake, a memory to look back on positively. This is a service we offer to our members, it is Community as a Service.
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📸 Throwback to TestBash 2015 from Deborah Reid
🗓️ Events this coming week: Tests as Context: Meet the Testmo MCP - Closing the Test Automation Gap: Practical Solutions for Advanced QA Teams - Xray Fall’26 Product Release
Closing the Test Automation Gap: Practical Solutions for Advanced QA Teams
Complex workflows, flaky tests, fragmented tools, and AI-driven pressure are making it harder for QA teams to keep up.
Do you practice CUWI (Community Unscripted With Intention)? — Simon Tomes
Community Unscripted With Intention (CUWI) is the practice of proactively creating moments for community members to discover more about themselves in realtime and ideally in the same physical space.
Bleeding job titles: Our roles are becoming more specialised, not generalised — Rosie Sherry
There's been a theme for a while. Not purely down to AI, but it has at least partially contributed to it.
The theme is that we are becoming more generalist. Our skills are blurring. We are expected to do more. It's hard to put ourselves and our skillsets into a singular box. And as a result we've been shifting towards an idea of being a generalist.
PHP Dramas, DOG Dexter and BIG Buttons — Demi and Shawn, with Louise and Oleksandr
The gang explore security vulnerabilities, the challenges of testing randomness and AI, and how better communication and collaboration can strengthen quality across teams.
The Rise of Agentic Testing — Naveen Khunteta
Leave with a powerful roadmap to stay relevant in this new era of software engineering.
AI Risk List: Socioeconomic & Environmental Impacts (6) — Rosie Sherry
Data and a list to help you explore product risks
TWiC in person: Pivots, pain sponges and purposeful pauses — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes, with Andy Claremont
What does it take to guide members through a pivot, soak up the pain of change, and know when to pause community activities or provide an easy off ramp?
99 Seconds at MoTaCon 2026 — MoTaCon 2026 attendees
Watch the world-famous rapid-fire 99 Second Talks delivered by various attendees at MoTaCon 2026.
The curious case of the self correcting bug — René van Veldhuijzen
Explore how adaptive, self-healing AI tools and an AI-driven product risk analysis can take on the heavy lifting, helping testers evolve from bug hunters into quality architects.
RiskStorming decks: from swag to experiment — Frederick Vandenbosch
There was so much awesome swag at MoTaCon 2026! I managed to snag some RiskStorming decks (by sharing moments), with the idea of experimenting with them at work.
From Traditional to AI-powered Quality: Introducing Katalon True Platform
🤖 From traditional to AI-powered quality: a free live webinar with a Katalon True Platform demo and Q&A 💻 Nov 4 🗓️
📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online
- Roundtable: What is like to be a solo-quality-enforcer? — Roundtable — Nov 12th
MoTaverse, in person
- Pre-MoTaCon Workshops Social — Sept 28th 2027
- MoTaCon Workshops 2027 — Sept 29th 2027
- Pre-MoTaCon Social — Sept 29th 2027
- MoTaCon 2027: 84 people already registered. Let’s go!
- MoTaCon Social 2027 — Sept 30th 2027
- 🎤 MoTaCon Karaoke night 🎤 — Sept 30th 2027
MoT Chapter events
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
- TWiC, listen live or join the stage, and join the Chapter
- Closing the Test Automation Gap: Practical Solutions for Advanced QA Teams | Sembi
- Xray Fall’26 Product Release | Sembi
- From Traditional to AI-powered Quality: Introducing Katalon True Platform | Katalon
- AI in Software Testing Katalon Executive Roundtable, USA 2026 | Katalon
- How to Talk to AI | AI Chapter
- MoT Cincinnati - The Future of the Cincy Chapter | MoT Cincinnati
- MoT Athens #19: Chaos Testing, Contract Testing & AI Agents | MoT Athens
- AI & Software testing | Parasoft
- MoT Newcastle November meet up with Stu Day and Alex Burley | MoT Newcastle
- Quality for Everyone – Accessibility Testing in Practice | MoT Manchester
- The unseen cost of quality | MoT London
- The Bug World Cup 🏆 Online Edition: Find Real Bugs With AI Test Agents | Thunders
- MoT Leeds Chapter Retrospective | MoT Leeds
- Test Forward’27 · Software Quality in the age of AI | Thunders
- If AI is everywhere, what shall I do? | AI Chapter
- AI Governance - Whose headache is it anyway? | AI Chapter
- Don’t Trust Claims. Test the Harness | AI Chapter
- Pairing with an AI Coding Agent to Build an Accessibility Test Automation Framework | AI Chapter
Partner events
- Tests as Context: Meet the Testmo MCP — Testmo
- QA at AI Speed: Autonomous Testing Inside Jira — SmartBear
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