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What's been happening in the testing, QA, dev and quality engineering MoTaverse?
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
MoTaverse
Browse our upcoming community-led meetups: MoT Meetups: June / July 2025. 🤝
Hello, my name is … TestBash 2025. This is a fun way to meet fellow TestBash attendees. Going to TestBash? Add your selfie and we'll add it to the collection. TestBash starts now. 📸
Quality Talks Podcast - 1st Anniversary Live Show!
With 80% of quality and testing professionals identifying as “quality engineers” it's clear there is a real shift in how we think and approach building quality products. Testing will always exist, but the full challenges to build quality are better addressed with a Quality Engineering mindset. We've just published the outline for our next MoT Certification: Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC). 🚀
Beautiful Evening With Testing Legends.
Good to see Martin Hynie and Bill Matthews launch a new podcast. Listen to: Ghost in th Code — Foundations and Navigating AI Testing — Episode 1.
Sun down beach chats after TestBash Brighton.
🎧 Testing inside the boxes and beyond, This Week in Testing, Episode 93. Catch up on last week's chit-chat with the community. We discussed meetups, community photos, grey box testing, burnout and regaining confidence. Find out who joined the stage!
Community stars in June. There have been plenty. 🤩
Are you open to meeting at TestBash 2025? You can now say so via your MoT Profile. Select “Profile image > My MoT > Open To”. You'll then appear on this handy page.
🥞 New collection. All Things RiskStorming: This educational tool explores risk analysis and quality strategy building with the whole team. Beren's quick explanation is a must-watch.
We encourage you to use that like button to support the good people sharing what they know with the community. And if you want to experience receiving a like, why not add a meme or memory?
👕 A new range of Bug and MoT Logo t-shirts are now available in the MoT Store. They look delightful. Plenty of colour and size options too! And I'm still smiling about our beloved Bug character getting its own set of t-shirts. A gift for you or a colleague?
How to follow MoT Profiles in the MoTaverse.
Career growth
🥞 New collection: The Community's Guide to Workshop Delivery. Thanks for creating it, Jesse Berkeley.
From Feedback to Fuel: Turning Constructive Criticism into Career Growth by Mariela Dabbah.
Get a sense of what you could learn at TestBash. Learning outcomes mater and we're adding the details here.
Professional members can now share that they are open to reviewing CVs/Resumes. Visit MyMoT to activate. See what else the community is open to.
What has been the best and worst take-home task you’ve encountered during a hiring process?
Community Tips For Public Speaking.
Essentials
🎉 Module 14 is now live in the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate! In this module, you’ll explore different ways to approach test planning, how to adapt your plan when things change, and what to do when testing is seen as a blocker. Read the module overview. Kudos to Rahul Parwal, Callum Akehurst-Ryan, Kat Obring, Mark Winteringham, Jesper Ottosen, Judy Mosley, Mirza Sisic, Nat Burmei and Jenny Bramble for contributing their knowledge and experience. ✨
Decide when to stop testing by weighing up the costs, benefits, risks, and impact on quality. Four reasons to stop testing: Finding the right balance in software quality by Stefan Dirnstorfer.
Chaos theory, Decision fatigue and Grey Box Testing: Definitions you can add to. ✍️
What different types of testing are there? How many different ways are there to do testing?
In most cases, do not do things alone.
Tatenda Carl Sakarombe would like to know, what three things do you wish you had known about QA before starting? 🔥
Quality Engineering
Why do we need a QE at all? asks Melissa Fisher.
Mariem Safi shares the results of her research into specialist QA/QE AI roles.
Leading with Quality
Share one leadership idea that you practice. This collection can grow, contribute by adding a memory and we'll do the rest.
Leading with quality is guiding teams to build resilient, reliable, and ethically sound systems.
Engagement in the Workplace: How to Keep High-Performing Leaders from Walking Out the Door.
“Some ideas are worth preserving even when their original implementation doesn't survive. This framework taught me that teams genuinely want to reflect on their quality practices - they just need the right format and support to actually fix what's broken.” – Susanne Abdelrahman.
Empowering others by Nataliia Burmei.
6 ways leaders can remain flexible during chaotic times.
How do you determine what you can and can’t change as a leader?
Another Look at Productivity and How to Influence It: Ability, Attitude, Tooling by Jens Oliver Meiert.
The leadership lesson of sledge rides with the kids by Jesper Ottosen.
Share a story about when you used situational leadership. Add a written or video memory, and we'll add it to this collection.
Take software development practices with a pinch of salt.
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Tooling
🛠️ Tool of the week: Aqua Cloud
TestBench User Group was a big success!
Bugs
Interesting bugs: Artifact building failure caused by GitHub API rate limits by Mirek Długosz.
Coding
Celebrate the code you didn’t write by Ryan Harter.
Maxim Gorin urges us to stop writing if-else trees: use the state pattern instead.
Automation
Bug congrats to Alex Clubman for earning a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation and Paul Sansum for earning a MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation. 🏆
Selenium Community Live - Episode 6 with Luke Hill.
Testing a LottieAnimation in Compose.
Two-Wheeler Embedded UIs: Test Right or Risk Product Recalls.
Test data
Why Test Data Is the Unsung Hero of High-Quality Software — Especially in Finance by Matthew Whitaker.
Security and safety
Understanding Functional Safety and Ensuring Reliability in Critical Systems.
BSidesSLC 2025 - Risk Management Explained Through Star Wars with Kenny Scott.
Mobile testing
Now in Android #117 — Google I/O 2025 Part I.
AI
Prompting AI to build PocketCal.
A compelling read: My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts.
AI Frontiers: Rethinking intelligence with Ashley Llorens and Ida Momennejad.
From Experiment to Enterprise: How Block Operationalized MCP at Scale - Angie Jones, Block
The Agentic Identity Journey at Indeed.
Five Boring Things That Have A Bigger Impact Than “A.I.” Coding Assistants On Dev Team Productivity.
A team of MIT researchers founded Themis AI to quantify AI model uncertainty and address knowledge gaps.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored.
Just for fun
Who needs Chat-GPT when you have MoT-GPT.
Doctor, Doctor, I can’t stop creating bug reports with clickbait titles.
How about a Follow-mania? Nice one for setting this up, Judy Mosley. 😄
Sun down beach chats after TestBash Brighton
🗓️ Events
Keep checking the events page for the most up-to-date info.
- This Week in Testing Fri 13 Jun 🎙️
- Tunis Meetup Sat 14 Jun 🇹🇳
- Milan Meetup Mon 16 Jun 🇮🇹
- Barcelona Meetup Tue 17 Jun 🇪🇸
- Software Testing Live Wed 18 Jun 🔎
- Valencia Meetup Thu 19 Jun 🇪🇸
- Porto Meetup Wed 25 Jun 🇵🇹
- Athens Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇷
- London Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇬🇧
- Cork Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇮🇪
- Cincinnati Meetup Thu 26 Jun 🇺🇸
- Accelerating Test Design: From Chaotic Requirements to Ready-to-Run Test Assets Fri 27 Jun 🖥️
- Plymouth Meetup Wed 9 Jul 🇬🇧
- Newcastle Meetup Tue 15 Jul 🇬🇧
- Software Testing Live Wed 16 Jul 🔎
- Leading with Quality Tue 30 Sep 🇬🇧
- TestBash Brighton 2025 Wed 1–Thu 2 Oct 🚀
Get the details on all our upcoming community-led meetups.
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