It never ceases to surprise and completely humble me. Over the next couple of week or so, 600 of you are gathering at Meetups across the globe.
That's Manchester, Cambridge, London, Leeds, Munich, Sarajevo, Athens, Coventry, Bengaluru and Ghana.
👉 View all upcoming meetups, view the full list of locations, or reach out if you'd like to run your own.
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What's new in the MoTaverse?
Hello, I am Rosie, your new MoTaverse Weekly host, and one thing I've learned recently is that a MoTographer at MoTacon creates many awesome community memories. These also happen to take time to process.
Sure, I could just bulk upload in one go, or link to a folder, but they wouldn't really get properly seen and experienced. Instead, I'm doing this with care, one by one, writing a few words and doing my best to tag the right people. I may be doing this for months to come, but the future MoTaverse will thank us! 🫠
And in all seriousness, these get tagged to your profiles, which will make them easy to find later and you are most welcome to personally make use of them. Plus, they will get found via SEO, AI search and MEO (MoTaverse Engine Optimisation).
This one with Nicola Furniss and Elly Gausden made my heart sing. View the MoTaCon memories or catch up on the talks.
⭐️ Remember, Professional Members can sign up to MoTacon today!
A taste of what the MoTaverse has shipped this week:
- Driving quality: The role of software testing in the automotive industry | Article
- AI: "You're absolutely right" | Meme
- Bob Salmon: A developer walks into the quality bar | Leading With Quality
- Why shoot for gold when bronze is good enough! - Ep 113 | TWiQ
- Quality takes time | Memory
- Beta testing starts today for WIZZO | Memory
- The SmartBear crew looking great, thanks for sponsoring MoTaCon25! | Memory
Collections of the week, new and improved:
- The Community's Guide to Shifting in Testing: Shift Left, Shift Right, Shift Everywhere
- A list of software outages in the wild
- The Community's Guide to Mobile Testing
What's more! We're pretty excited to have released the first few Lessons of Software Quality Engineering Certification (SQEC) and it feels even more special now that people enrolled on certification now earn a community star, for themselves and the creator of the lesson, when they complete a lesson. It's a little bit of MoTivation that sometimes we all need to get through learning activities.
💡 Use MoT to help find your next career step. There are 142 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? Manchester | Cambridge | London | Leeds | Munich | Sarjevo | Coventry | Athens | Bengaluru | Ghana
- Virtual Lean Coffees: let's meet online and talk about what's on your mind with Leadership or AI.
- 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.
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton, right before MoTaCon. Save your spot, it will sell out.
- 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:
Blog posts from the MoTaverse community:
- Want to be a better Quality Engineer: Lose the Ego from Callum Akehurst-Ryan
- Testing is on sale now. Will quality follow? Nataliia Burmei started a new blog, go give it a visit and subscribe!
- Quality = Engineered + Experienced - explained with fountain pens by Maaike Brinkhof
- Driving Quality Through Metrics, Advocacy, and Continuous Improvement. | David Burns + Kat Obring
- How Community and Culture Are Shaping the Next Era of Quality Engineering. | David Burns + Rosie Sherry
Industry tech news:
- Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach | TechCrunch
- Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws | The Verge
- ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace | Futurism
- Google Pulls Down AI Chatbot After It Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime | Futurism
- AI doesn't kill prod. You do. | PromptLayer
- WhatsApp security flaw lets experts scrape 3.5 billion user numbers - here's what we know, and how to stay safe | TechRadar
Quality & software testing tools from the database:
- Maestro: One test framework, for ALL your apps Maestro is a single platform that tests all of your mobile and web apps - no matter what framework your team uses.
- Unblocked: Get Cursor, Claude and Copilot to finally understand your system like your best engineer.
- Thunders: AI Test Agents that Generate, Execute & Monitor Validate Debug Analyze Audit Report Improve Self-Heal Learn
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