Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoT Weekly host.
📸 Today's featured photo comes from Diana Dromey and MoT Manchester.
🥇 Our Software Quality Engineering Certificate is 99% complete! Level up your career.
📚 We now have 470 terms and 680 definitions in our glossary. Have a peek and we challenge you to add a term!
Unlock Confident Coverage and Traceability
Jira Issue Connect brings live, real-time Jira data directly into TestRail, eliminating tab-switching and stale fields.
🚀 The MoTaverse has been shipping
🌟 New course! Modern integration testing: Tools, techniques, and strategies for continuous quality — Lewis Prescott
Go beyond with modern integration testing—with faster feedback, simpler debugging, improved scalability and maintainability. Take the step to implement new test types including contract testing of course.
✏️ Why software testers should write documentation even if no one else reads it — Shawn Vernier
Cultivate professional trust and accountability by using detailed documentation to demonstrate due diligence and quantify risk for stakeholders.
🎤 The multiplier gap: Leading at the speed of AI — Into the MoTaverse Episode 10
An exploration of the multiplier gap reveals the growing friction between AI-accelerated code production and the human-centric leadership required to maintain quality and team cohesion.
📜 Joy Scrolling - Ep 129 — TWiQ
Simon and Judy celebrate “joy scrolling” in the MoTaverse, swap stories on time-zone chaos and quality moments, and spotlight how community content, chapters, and AMAs turn learning into momentum.
👀 The Witness Stand — Dragan Spiridonov
Agents generate impressive reports. Classical testing taught me to cross-examine every one of them.
🦁 Foundations favour the AI brave — Preeti
AI worry. It's easy to feel overwhelmed keeping up with the pace of AI growth. According to Ascendix there were an estimated 90,000 AI companies worldwide by 2025. And this has infiltrated every part of the tech industry we can think of.
💯 Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming — Ash Winter
How does a team’s stage of development influence the style of quality engineering it needs to thrive?
📺 A day in the MoTaverse (ADITM)
💸 How much does that bug cost? — Simon Tomes
As part of the Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC), Module 9 Lesson 3, they discuss how to quantify the cost of bugs. Jessica shares a helpful approach whilst Cassandra wonders what happens when someone turns it around and asks to cost up all those risk analysis and exploratory testing sessions.
🙇🏾♀️ The Ask MoTaverse Anything (AMA) continues:
There are now 19 AMAs, here are some new ones to get involved with
- AMA about transition from Manual to Automation Testing
- AMA about project management (with a tester's hat)
- AMA about The MoTaverse
- AMA about Mobile Automation
- AMA about Mobile Testing
Some answers from the MoTaverse people:
- Mobile accessibility testing tools
- Any suggestions, or experiences with test automating mobile/mobileweb using real devices on both of the platforms Android-Chrome, iOS-Safari ?
- App performance testing
- How do you handle company and stakeholder needs that might impact product quality?
- What’s the most interesting thing you’re exploring in mobile testing these days?
- What do you think are the pros and cons of a podcast being an audio-only medium?
- Mobile testing reviews
- How is AI powered tools changing mobile testing?
- What can the world of tech learn from the world of winter sports?
- What do you think is the most valuable contributions a non-technical team can make?
- Can you give 3 practical examples of how marketing has contributed to building a better product?
- I don't have a testing/quality background! How long did it take you to feel comfortable in marketing a product you didn't know much about before?
We do try to be subtle...(Sometimes it actually wasn't in dev yet!)
🤖 Write an agents.md file that improves AI-created test output and can be used for review before PR — Emily O'Connor
Writing an agents.md that outlines Playwright standards isn’t just documentation for its own sake—it directly improves how reliably and efficiently your automated agents (or test authors) behave.
🔮 Test cases are no longer crafted nor unique — Jesper Ottosen
I was just at a test tool demo today, and I had a moment.
Test cases are no longer carefully crafted and unique, they are generated.
Test cases are no longer an atomic unit of measure (if it ever was).
Given source code, system specs or even a one-liner, test scripts can be generated.
Put SOAtest to Work
Test Smarter APIs and microservices with a Parasoft SOAtest trial—built for modern, distributed systems.
📆 All upcoming events
Virtual Opportunities:
- Evals in practice for an AI coding agent
- TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage.
In person:
- MoTaCon 2026: 164 people already registered. Let's go!
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. 97% booked.
- Chapter events: Leeds, Berlin, Munich, Manchester, Netherlands. Brighton.
Partner events:
- Choosing AI-Powered API Testing Tools: What Capabilities Really Matter
- How to Build Automation-Ready API Tests with ReadyAPI
- How to Cut API Testing Time - live demo and Q&A
- Introducing TestRail 10: Confident Coverage and Traceability with Jira Issue Connect
- Too Many Tests, Too Little Time: Smarter Ways to Tackle Manual Regression Testing
The MoTaverse is the home to quality leaders. We are an independent and member-supported organisation, here to uplift the software testing and quality engineering industry. Upgrade to Professional Membership, available for individuals or teams.
