Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
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🗓️ Events this coming week: QFireside Chat: The AI Eval Mindset | The Rise of Agentic Testin | From AI-Generated Tests to Real Quality with Tatyana Arbouzov | TWiC: This Week in Community | This Week in Quality
Can Your QA Catch Chatbot Hallucinations?
Chatbots give different answers to the same question. Learn how to test for wrong answers that sound right.
Quality Guidance: Be honest, be yourself, sneak it in, add in the fun and 404 Simon — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes, with Gary Hawkes, Eamon and Judy
A lively discussion on career growth, engineering leadership, community, bringing joy to testing, and navigating AI.
The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell — Nancy Kelln
Recognise and use the hidden leadership skills of quality professionals to explain project risks in business terms, so leaders make go-live decisions based on evidence instead of hope.
From The Traitors to Testers: Why Perspective Matters — Simon Devon
Simon Devon explores how diverse lived experiences can make testing more inclusive, uncover overlooked issues, and improve software quality.
The AI risk list continues:
From test cases to AI-ready quality data: why structure matters — TestRail
Learn how to structure and organize test management data as an AI-ready foundation that gives AI systems richer context for testing insights and workflows.
22 years in 22 minutes - lessons learned and how they apply in the AI era — Jason Huggins
Discover the timeless lessons Selenium creator Jason Huggins has learned over 22 years, from knowing when to quit to staying curious, and how they apply to testing and building software in the AI era.
Joy for all: always be inviting, working in seasons, and bridging generations — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes
What might change if your community worked in seasons and kept inviting new voices? Reflections on joy, gifting, OKRs, and learning across generations
Agentic Steel Thread for Test Automation — Blessan Thomas
Blessan Thomas demonstrates how an agentic AI framework can automate the testing lifecycle, using progressive context building, self-healing tests, and human oversight.
QA trailblazers are rewriting the rules in the age of AI — Julius Mong
Julius Mong explores how agentic AI can transform test automation, reduce maintenance, and help testers evolve into QA orchestrators.
Can we actually co-own quality? — Susanne Abdelrahman
Learn how to share quality ownership across your team by passing on the judgement behind your practices, using a simple responsibility model that makes accountability clear.
The tipping point: AI and coding chaos — Nadim Rohani
Nadim Rohani explores how AI amplifies organisational complexity and why strong guardrails, systems thinking, and proactive testing are essential to managing risk.
AI-powered testing: supercharging the human tester — Caitlin Randles
Up skilling and empowering Test Engineers to streamline testing, not replacing them!
Stop guessing, start seeing: the rise of Observability-Driven Testing — David Burns
Learn how to use production telemetry and trace-based testing to catch hidden failures, like background microservice errors, that traditional scripted tests miss.
Stability is a system, not a metric: lessons from scaling mobile test automation — Pranav Pandit
Discover how to treat automation stability as a system problem, using lessons from a 2,000-test mobile suite that moved to around 90% reliability.
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse, in person
- Pre-MoTaCon Workshops Social — Sept 28th, 2027
- MoTaCon Workshops 2027 — Sept 29th, 2027
- Pre-MoTaCon Social — Sept 29th, 2027
- MoTaCon 2027: 83 people already registered. Let’s go!
- MoTaCon Social 2027 — Sept 30th, 2027
MoT Chapter events
- The Rise of Agentic Testing | AI Chapter
- From AI-Generated Tests to Real Quality with Tatyana Arbouzova | MoT Vancouver
- TWiC or Treat | TWiC — This Week in Community
- TWiQ or Treat | TWiQ — This Week in Quality
- Session with The Thinking Tester (TBC) | AI Chapter
- 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
- The unseen cost of quality | MoT London
- 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
- QFireside Chat: The AI Eval Mindset — ACCELQ
- Tests as Context: Meet the Testmo MCP — Testmo
- Closing the Test Automation Gap: Practical Solutions for Advanced QA Teams — Ranorex
- QA at AI Speed: Autonomous Testing Inside Jira — SmartBear & Atlassian
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