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Reduce flakiness. Try Squish for free.

Enhance test coverage, and streamline automation. Take a tour!

Attend TestBash for £99

Spend 30 minutes on a virtual call with Rosie Sherry, CEO and Founder of MoT. She’ll ask you some questions about your professional life, get to know you a bit more to help influence what we build in the MoTaverse.

At the end of the call, she will give you a link to book a TestBash ticket for £99+VAT. Valid for one ticket only. How cool! Book a time slot.

Bug space invaders are excited for the offer, but they don't believe it's real. There's a race to see who gets there first.

STEC, for the community by the community

Module 17 is now live in the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC). In this module, you’ll learn how testers can support and use automation effectively, even if they’re not writing automation code.

Plus check out Module 18 where you get to explore several testing specialisms. Learn with Mirza Sisic, Suman Bala, Mark Winteringham, Ady Stokes, Kat Obring, Ben Dowen, Manish Saini, Hanisha Arora and Marie Cruz.

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One team, one goal: The reality of introducing a unified testing strategy.

Find out how a large, cross-functional tech team unified testing to improve quality at scale. By Sam Farndale and Gina Chelton.

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20 tools to help you with your data software testing needs.

What's missing from this list? Feel free to drop a comment, or add it to our software testing tools directory.

Win a TestBash ticket

Share a test idea in 99 characters or less. Enter today to win.

Find out what’s really behind testing hires that fail. Susanne Abdelrahman offers up super interesting insights.

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The Future of Intelligent Quality is Here

Smarter testing starts now with Sembi IQ, bringing AI-powered enhancements to TestRail, Xray, and Designwise.

A triple whammy!

Leading With Quality Conversations

Matthew Whitaker: The spare QA: Is quality on the move?

Rachel Kibler: Engineering hope

Gary Hawkes: All roads lead to quality

Xray AI in action: Test Case & Model Generation for modern QA teams

Whether you’re new to Xray or just AI-curious, this session will leave you with practical insights and live examples. Register today.

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Iterative development is a process in which the software evolves from a high-level concept to something with acknowledged business value. Discover more items in the software testing glossary. Professional members can add new definitions.

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Same Same but Different 😉

MoT Unlimited, the power of bundling!

Every bug tells a story

From reading to leading

What’s been happening in The Observatory?

What is the Lovelace report, and why should we care?

Offensive Tooling Cheatsheets: An Infosec Survival Guide Resource

Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

3 years of Software Testing in Mind-Map

See what else has been happening — a place for interesting bookmarks. 🛰️

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This Week in Testing returns on Friday. In the meantime, why not revisit the archive? So much insight from many wonderful and knowledgeable community members. 🤩

Looking for your next opportunity? The new look job board is live with plenty of job opportunities. Hiring or just want to help a fellow community member find a job? It’s now even simpler to post a job ad for free.

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"Bug, I am your father."

Give a star a star

MoT Professional Members can now award community stars to fellow community members. Turns out giving stars makes you feel good! Send a message of support and gratitude.

“I just tried out the feature to award community stars - it IS a nice feeling!” – Lisa Crispin.

+ Award a Community Star

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It was good to talk

“I had fun with Gary Shannon and Stu Day talking all things MoT and TestBash.”

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MoT Professional Membership: For the advancement of software testing and quality engineering. A deep dive into how we've been expanding our MoT Professional Membership and how you can get involved too.

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👤 How to get the most out of your MoT profile: Top tips for maximising value.

🪐 A Guide to the MoTaverse.

Chat your way to TestBash

One team, one goal: The reality of introducing a unified testing strategy.

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