Hello, I am Rosie, your MoTaverse Weekly host.
This week I'd love to highlight our star community algorithm, and who better to represent the weekly photo than Eamon and Ayesha? They are the answer to naming two quality people who have consistently shown up in 2025. I'm a true believer that showing up is what leads to learning and personal growth.
Feel free to drop a comment on other quality people who you seen show up in 2025. ⭐️
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What's new in the MoTaverse?
Every day that I show up to build the MoTaverse, the less I want to spend time anywhere else. Our goal is for people in the MoTaverse to see and feel that too. Over the past year, I've been doubling down on being audacious, and as Team MoTaverse we've been making daily progress!
It can be hard to talk about it without going down 99 rabbit holes. This is because everything is interconnected.
When I start to talk about our community algorithm:
- I want to talk about how it ties into community culture
- I want to show how we are moving towards a system of beautiful recognition, for those who show up to learn in addition to those that contribute
- I want to show how we are catering for individuals and teams
- I want to express how right it feels that we are starting to track and recognise different types of learning, it's not just about course completion, it's also about reading articles, sharing content, and so much more. All of this is learning and it is increasingly reflected on your MoT profile.
One community star at a time. Elevate yourself. Elevate others. Try it out, it's beautiful.
Ady shares how he's progressing.
First I missed capturing 404 stars. Now I missed 500. So I’m celebrating 513 instead. Great problem to have. — Ady Stokes
⭐️ A taste of what the MoTaverse has shipped this past week:
- Software testing that saves lives: A tester's journey in medical tech by Yulia Yudit Sharabi
- You're absolutely right! We now read the docs — community credits to Rosie Sherry, Jesper Ottosen and Megan Ozanne
- How do we grow the next generation of Quality Engineers in the current market? — community credits to Katja Meyer, Ben Dowen, Rosie Sherry, Gary Hawkes, Richard Adams, Dalbir Sehmbi
- The mobile testing paradox - TWiQ Ep 114
⭐️ Let's go down MoT Memory lane…
- Stashing Mobile Testing thoughts from TWiQ...
- Would a whiteboard on your door help you remember the important things?
- What is the difference between test automation solution and test automation framework?
- Emily kicking off MoT Leeds
- MoT Leeds Leading with Quality discussion
⭐️ Collection of the week: Leading With Quality conversations:
Learn from those who have been there and done that. We have two more episodes dropping very soon!
💡 Use MoT to help find your next career step. There are 113 Jobs available on our job board. You can also mark yourself as Open To Work via MyMoT.
Where are people gathering?
- Communities of Practice, a live conversation with Rosie Sherry and Drew Pontikis. RSVP.
- MoT winter meetups are happening, is there one near you? Munich | Sarjevo | Coventry | Athens | Bengaluru | Ghana
- AI Lean Coffee, join us for conversations on AI, quality and testing.
- MoTaCon 2026: you can submit to speak. Remember, to attend MoTaCon 2026 you need a Professional Membership (available for teams!), no separate ticket purchase is required. Registration is required, save your place today. 89 people booked already.
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton, right before MoTaCon. Save your spot, it will sell out. 50% sold.
- TWiQ, a weekly Friday gathering of quality conversations, join us for the next session.
From The Observatory:
The Observatory is where we and the community share blogs, articles, videos and news from the quality ecosystem. It will save you time in searching through the chaos of the social web:
⭐️ From the MoTaverse community:
- AI will soon deliver code that will pass automatic testing by default — Bogdan Cerovac
- How I Taught GitHub Copilot Code Review to Think Like a Maintainer — Angie Jones
- On herding cats — James Thomas
- How I automated the annoying part of my job with Goose and Playwright MCP — Filip Hric
- Quality is Emergent — Jitesh Gosai
- Visualising Quality: Creating your Quality Radar — Nicola Sedgwick
⭐️ Industry tech news:
- Vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers
- Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions
- Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says
- Large language mistake
- Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
- The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
Quality & software testing tools from the database:
- Zephyr: Test management tools, no matter your team size Manage tests with tools designed for your needs to discover gaps and build better products
- Test Bench: Principled Test Framework for Ruby
- Hex is a connected platform for using AI to work with data
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