Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.
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⏳ Events happening this week: Beyond API Mocking: Modern Service Virtualization for Distributed Systems, AI Chapter: Everyday AI Coding: Skills & Plugins in a Tester's Workflow, MoT Leeds: Leeds Chapter Summer Social, This Week in Quality
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The continuous learner: Why we need to design our careers for lifelong learning — Rosie Sherry
Our learning practices need to adapt to an iterative people mindset
Doing shift-left right: Start thinking and learning early in the development cycle — Hanisha Arora
Testing earlier pays off when it means questioning earlier too.
The Rigour — Rosie Sherry
The hidden burden behind building quality products
Production down, crisis communication up — Simon Tomes & Heleen Van Grootven
A major issue hits the production environment. While we want to know what happens next, we need to ask what should've happened before?
The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress — Rosie Sherry & Demi Van Malcot
A 'good problems' episode about production-testing drama, MoTaverse growth, new voices, lifelong learning, and how community conversations help people keep going.
Building vision systems with AI in the real world — Adam Davis
A live demo and case study showing how AI can help build real-world vision systems, while human experimentation and testing still do the hardest work.
Small rooms, lifetime members, and community Claude skills — Rosie Sherry (with Ece Kurtaraner)
Rosie Sherry and Generalist World's Ece Kurtaraner talk small-scale events, lifetime membership models, and how they're each using Claude to cut community admin busywork.
Version 2.0: The tester I became after a career break — Madhuri Mittal
Madhuri Mittal shares how a career pause and motherhood reshaped her into a more resilient, empathetic, and adaptable tester.
Silos at scale: How local AI efficiency gains are breaking the quality feedback loops — Mike, Tulasi & Bharath (Scale Factory)
A panel discussion exploring how AI gains in silos can break feedback loops, shift bottlenecks downstream, and make quality harder to manage at scale.
Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge — Ben & Judy
A community-led episode on job hunting, scaling quality engineering, authentic career growth, AI adoption, gaming, and the value of staying connected when the industry feels noisy or uncertain.
Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.
- Mapping the Machine: What Fell Out of an LLM Wiki Idea — Justin Holsgrove
- Just get out there — Rosie Sherry
- When Community helps you find your next step — Judy Mosley
- The photo of the selfie, say cheese! — Rosie Sherry
- How I destroyed a 3000 $ IoT Device, and what it taught me about testing — Rahul Parwal
- How to use AI in your Daily AI Workflow — Rahul Parwal
- Ady Stokes — 20 Moments this week: We will STEC you: Testing song / rap, Shakespeare by AI and Ady Stokes, The meaning of TestBash, and 17 more.
BearQ Deep Dive and Fast-Track Trial Access
See autonomous QA in action with BearQ—from exploration to test generation. Trial access included
📆 All upcoming events
MoTaverse online:
- Influence, from the other side of the table — Masterclass — Sept 10th
- Test data driven development — Masterclass — Sept 23rd
MoTaverse, in person:
- Leaders Dinner, London — Sept 28th
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
- Engineering management beach party — Sept 30th
- Leaders Dinner, Brighton — Sept 30th
- MoTaCon 2026: 290 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
- Everyday AI Coding: Skills & Plugins in a Tester's Workflow | AI Chapter
- Leeds Chapter summer social | MoT Leeds
- Social event at the Fringe: Get Your Geek On | MoT Edinburgh
- Chapter Event #61: Cognitive overload in the AI era | MoT Berlin
- The MoTaCon Pre‑Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
- Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
- Pre-MoTaCon Meetup | MoT Brighton
Partner events:
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