Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
Good problems. That's what I'm embracing at the moment. When quality, community and any kind of business activity is seen as part of the system, interesting things appear. Sometimes they are problems in quality. Other times, the need to re-design, or re-think come into place.
A big part of this comes with scaling, when what we build is being used and tested to new limits, we start to notice things that need changing. It's not things stop working, it's more that we need to cater for different problems.
We can take a quality angle with this, how much of a problem is it? Is it hindering people? What risks are being introduced?
We can also take a celebratory moment, often when good problems happen, it is because what we've created is actually being used. That's a success within itself that we should take mote of.
🔥 MoTaCon 2027 registration is now open. Let's go.
📸 Image this week is from MoTaCon 2026 and people who helped make it happen, staff, volunteers, friends. :)
🗓️ Don't miss: From test cases to AI-ready quality data: why structure matters and Bring Playwright into Katalon True Platform
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From MoTaCon Dinner to $8M: Klarent’s big week — Rosie Sherry
Bug congrats from the MoTaverse
The AI Risk List, parts 1 and 2 are here, more to come:
Leading With Quality - Slides & Resources — Stu Day, Jesper Ottosen, Simon Tomes, Barry Ehigiator, Megan Ozanne & Paul Reinheimer
Grab the slides and resources from all the sessions at Leading With Quality 2026
Community stars shine at MoTaCon festival, with moments to remember — Simon Tomes & Ady Stokes
A post-MoTaCon reflection episode celebrating the festival week’s workshops, talks, volunteering, community connections, Moments, stars, swag... and many unexpected memories made in Brighton.
Testing the untestable: building a strategy for testing AI — Stuart Thomas
Understand the strategic concepts required to tame the chaos of testing AI by understanding the behaviour of the beast.
But I'm not a developer: the quality route into head of engineering — Simon Tomes & Gary Hawkes
Follow one quality leader's move from QE into head of engineering, and find the mission and principles that can guide you too.
When systems stop behaving: controlled chaos in practice — Adam Davis
Learn ways to introduce controlled chaos and help teams think more clearly about how systems really behave.
Listen, capture, analyse: the vibeometer and action-first community — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes
A new life awaits you in the offline communities: listen, capture, and analyse the signals that show your community is popping off.
Make it joyful: How to build products that make people smile — Clare Norman
Join this guided tour of joy through the things we can see, the things we interact with, and the things that connect with our core identities.
How do you sleep at night? Arthur Hicken and Igor Kirilenko on testing AI-generated code — Rosie Sherry with Arthur Hicken & Igor Kirilenko
Arthur Hicken and Igor Kirilenko of Parasoft on what actually lets a quality team sleep at night when AI is writing both the code and the tests.
The fear factor in Software Testing: Recognize it, address it, transform it — Suzanne Kraaij
Explore the psychological shift from risk-based testing to fear-based testing.
Many Moments in the MoTaverse this week, create your moment today.
- Engineering Manager Beach Party! — Drew Pontikis
- Bake it in! Be an A11y — Aj Wilson
- When you receive swag you can actually use... — Suzanne Kraaij
- Exploratory Testing with Teams Facilitator — Adam Foy
- Is ISTQB Foundation worth anything? — Mitchell John
- Your Inner Bug — Louise Woodhams
- LEGO tells you a story about yourself, and 1 more.
- A prompt paints a thousand words — Neil Taylor
- Started with a party! — Luke Lattimer
- How do the 5 Shifts fit into Continuous Testing? — Deborah Reid
- Chocolate - book exchange — Melissa Fisher
- My First MoTaCon 💜 — Asad Imtiaz
- Looks like the agents escaped the sandbox — Giorgos Siamantas
- Quality Management for everyone — Suzanne Kraaij
- Four safe prompts. One unsafe conversation. 🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴 — Gokul Konda Sudarsan
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse In Person
- MoTaCon 2027: 81 people already registered. Let's go!
- Pre-MoTaCon Workshops Social — Sept 28th 2027
- MoTaCon Workshops 2027 — Sept 29th 2027
- Pre-MoTaCon Social — Sept 29th 2027
- MoTaCon Social 2027 — 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
- AI, Actually: Engineering Reliable Agents, Leading Real Change | MoT Berlin
- Bring Playwright into Katalon True Platform | Katalon
- From test cases to AI-ready quality data: why structure matters | Sembi
- The Rise of Agentic Testing | AI Chapter
- From AI-Generated Tests to Real Quality with Tatyana Arbouzova | MoT Vancouver
- Session with The Thinking Tester (TBC) | AI Chapter
- 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
- 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
- AMA on The Future of Testing in an AI Enabled Enterprise | AI Chapter
Partner events
- Tests as Context: Meet the Testmo MCP — Testmo
- Closing the Test Automation Gap: Practical Solutions for Advanced QA Teams — Ranorex
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