Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
🔥 Is MoTaCon secretly a festival now?
⏳ Events happening this week: Master AI Testing: Join the Top 1%, How to Stabilize AI-Generated Test Suites with SmartBear Reflect, QA Leadership Summit - The AI-Native Edge: Leading the Future of QA, This Week in Community, This Week in Quality.
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Go Beyond API Mocking
Watch Virtualize Keep Testing Moving
Why Quality teams are built on character, not just skills — Gary Hawkes | Article
What a darts team taught me about building high-performing quality teams
Task management and attitude complete the art of learning — Simon Rigler | Call for Insights
The MSTA technical learning model brings motivation, strategy, task management and attitude together
Hot take: your value isn't skills or outputs, it's judgement and perspective — Simon Tomes | Insight
Are you measuring your worth by the wrong thing entirely?
From ad-hoc prompting to Agentic Engineering: Latest trends in AI — AI Chapter
Learn how software engineering is shifting from basic prompt engineering to autonomous AI agents and intent-based workflows.
Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart — Swathika Visagn | Call for Insight
Exploratory testing, risk-based thinking, benchmarking: the same approaches, aimed at a new kind of system
Production down, crisis communication up — Helen Van Groovten | Call for Insight
A major issue hits the production environment. While we want to know what happens next, we need to ask what should've happened before?
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- In quality, there is no box to think outside — Ady Stokes
- The testers urge to press all the buttons, even the ones they shouldn't — Demi Van Malcot
- When a technical demo becomes something more — Adam Davis
- 99 Things Every Engineering Leader Should Know - Share your thoughts! — Drew Pontikis
- Wondering what wonderful swag WonderProxy will bring this year? — Diana Dromey
- What is next after an experienced quality role? — Jesper Ottosen
- The awesome feeling you get when you asked a simple question and it turned into something you could have never imagined & then you go tell your friends. — Lauren Lassey
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📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- Influence, from the other side of the table — Masterclass — Sept 10th
- Test data driven development — Masterclass — 23rd Sept
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leaders Dinner, London — 28th Sept
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Engineering management beach party — 30th September
- Leaders Dinner, Brighton — 30th Sept
- MoTaCon 2026: 257 people already registered. Let's go!
- MoTography at your service — October 1st
- Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October
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
- Leeds Chapter summer social | MoT Leeds
- Social event at the Fringe: Get Your Geek On | MoT Edinburgh
- The MoTaCon Pre‑Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
Partner events:
- Master AI Testing: Join the Top 1% — BrowserStack
- How to Stabilize AI-Generated Test Suites with SmartBear Reflect — SmartBear
- QA Leadership Summit - The AI-Native Edge: Leading the Future of QA — BrowserStack
- Beyond API Mocking: Modern Service Virtualization for Distributed Systems — Parasoft
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