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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚒
I hope you have a good week.
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
Community
"A copy of The Testing Planet made its way to Australia, arriving on a day when I happened to be wearing MoT merch. Thank you, Ministry of Testing!! Also thanks for the stickers as well! 😃" – Deb Sherwood. Plus Yaroslav shares his The Testing Planets in Vancouver. And if that's not enough, the newspaper appeared at the Manchester Tech Festival. Nice one, Diana Dromey, for volunteering to help out. 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
It’s here! MoT Community Certification. Your contributions to this software testing community matter. Piotr Wicherski celebrates – bug congrats! And thank you for your contributions Hanan. "Ministry of Testing is one of the best things to have happened to the testing community." ❤️
What advice would you share for organising and running an internal QA/Testing conference?
Two new meetups! MoT Cork, hybrid (online+in-person), 12th of November and MoT Athens (in-person), 29th of November. Exciting! 🇮🇪 🇬🇷
Got any fun photos from meetups you've attended? Add to the MoT Memories page. 📸
Ben Dowen says "TestBash just hits different". Tickets for 2025 are now available. Secure your spot with early access tickets. Oh, and check out the shiny new artwork. 🤩
Catch up on episode 59 of This Week in Testing - TestBash special. This episode captures the energy and feel of TestBash highlighting the duck scavenger hunt(!), a new AI-focused course, and tips on building meaningful careers through community connections and shared learning.
Career Growth
Job Moves
- Shariff Elwardany has a new position as Test Lead at OVO Energy.
- Richard Hinton joins 15gifts. Bug congrats! 🏆
Now hiring
- Benefex is hiring a senior mobile QA. Contact Olly Fairhall via the MoT Slack.
- Quality Engineer (Test Automation) | London.
- QA Analyst - Chili Piper, remote, but not US.
Open to work
- Robert String has 12 years of experience in testing and is open to work.
5 Essential Tips to Accelerate Your Software Testing Career by Barry Ehigiator.
"As a tester, vlogging is a popular way to showcase your work and expertise. However, what stops a lot of testers is the genuine lack and availability of good advice on video content." Rahul Parwal shares video content & YouTubing tips for testers.
Inspired by Rahul, Cassandra H. Leung added banners to their LinkedIn profile. How about doing the same? You can grab a logo from the MoT media kit page.
Continuous Quality
Do you understand what is meant by Continuous Quality?
"What I am most happy about is that we provide an example test strategy along with an explanation of how we built it by applying the Holistic Testing model." – Lisa Crispin. New book: Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into Your Product.
What is Continuous Quality (CQ) and why does it matter? How can we think about CQ strategies and implementation approaches? And what's next for CQ? Join: The Testing Planet: Episode Seven: The community's guide to Continuous Quality. 🪐
Essentials
Ilmi Sejfula is feeling discouraged with their goal to land an internship or junior role and could do with your words of encouragement. Jump on this thread to share your advice and support.
"Testing is a critical part of the software development lifecycle, and there's a growing demand for skilled testers. Testing is more than just a job. It's a journey of continuous growth and discovery."
What do software testers do? And what kind of hats do they like to wear? Maaret explains.
STEC is not just a course. It's the start of building your network. 🧭
What does a typical day look like for a software tester? by Nicola Lindgren.
Voice message request: When do you stop testing? Share a short audio snippet on the MoT Slack. We'd love to hear from you. 🎙️
"I love to create templates for my work to speed up my testing work." Rahul Parwal's Testing Activity Templates.
Cassandra explores Tester vs Quality Engineer.
"Sometimes you test without ever executing a single test." Digging Through Data Is Testing with Wayne Roseberry.
Test cases
Xray Enterprise - Discover Test Case Designer. Watch on demand! With Ivan Filippov and hosted by Jenna Charlton.
Reporting
How important are important bugs? Over 60% say very!
Heisenbugs: Handling software defects you can't reproduce by James Wadley. Reimagine irreproducible "Heisenbugs" as opportunities to strengthen your team's debugging practices.
Rabi'a would like to know, which bugs are you proudest of finding in TEST (not in production)?
As a QA, what details do you send to your client after you finish testing? Mukta Sharma shares advice.
Communities of Practice
📊 6 things folks are doing in communities of practice.
🎓 The certification every software tester needs to get their career started
Explore MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Critical thinking
The month looks different, depending on who checks.
Mobile Testing
How We Engineered Capturing Android ANRs in OTel by Jamie Lynch.
Exploratory Testing
Exploratory Testing in DevOps with Szilard Szell.
Automation
Ivan Karaman discussed keeping tests green — stability and trust in test automation.
Tooling
Maaret Pyhäjärvi celebrates Selenium turning 20 years old. Selenium is the friends we made along the way!
Unlocking the Mystery: Deciphering the Enigmatic Code of URL's Glob Patterns in cy.intercept() by Sebastian Clavijo Suero.
Jesse Houwing shares that GitHub removes data barriers for EU enterprises.
Knowledge Management
Recommendations for Resolving Client Knowledge Transfer Challenges by Yosef Falsafi.
Accessibility
Confused about aria-label and aria-labelled by? Ady Stokes reposted this handy tip.
Let's talk about wick-a11y… by James Wadley.
Security
New Feature Spotlight: Kiuwan Quality, SAST and SCA.
AI in Testing
A guide to AI in Testing: from basics to advanced with Ruslan Akhmetzianov.
Sergio Freire discussed AI's role in the future of software delivery.
Just for fun
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 2. Reply with ✅ If you find them.
Say hello to Space Seagull!
Share your memories with the community
🗓️ Events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
- This Week in Testing Fri 8 Nov
- Auckland Meetup Tue 12 Nov
- Tester Obsolescence: How to Compete in a Modern QA Job Market Tue 12 Nov
- Cork Meetup Tue 12 Nov
- Episode Seven: The community's guide to Continuous Quality Wed 27 Nov
- Athens Meetup Thu 28 Nov
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 28 Nov
- York Meetup 5 Dec
- Coventry Meetup Thu 5 Dec
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1 Oct 2025 🤩
🗞️ Industry News
- The QA and Dev relationship: a complicated love story by Lena Nyström
- The synergy of AI and human intelligence in software testing by Beatriz Biscaia
- Continuous Testing in DevOps: A Comprehensive Guide from Strategy to Execution by Hannah Son
💡 Continuous Call for Contributions
Contributing to the testing community is a positive way to support your career. Unsure how? There are many ways for you to contribute and be rewarded. The bonus: Sharing your knowledge supports everyone's career growth!
We are now accepting abstracts for talks and workshops for TestBash Brighton 2025. Submit an idea.
Look out for specific requests in the Help MoT channel on the MoT Slack.
